Mary Bayliss

Mary Selina Bayliss (14 January 194030 March 2019) was an English magistrate for 32 years, the High Sheriff of Berkshire from 2005 to 2006, and the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 2008 to 2015.

Bayliss was the daughter of Robert Bridgeman, the second Viscount Bridgeman, and his wife, Mary Lane Fox. She was born on 14 January 1940 at Bramham Park in West Yorkshire, which was the home of her mother's family. She was brought up at her parents' home at Minsterley in the county of Shropshire. She married Jeremy Bayliss, a chartered surveyor, in 1962. The couple moved to Sheepbridge Court at Swallowfield in the county of Berkshire, and had three sons.

She was involved in various charities in Reading and Berkshire, and was patron of the homeless charity Launchpad and the community support charity Connecting Communities in Berkshire.