author
Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble) Bayne
1844–1924
An Irish-born financier and travel writer, he turned a life of business success and wide-ranging curiosity into books about astronomy, history, and journeys across Europe and Ireland. His work carries the energy of a man who seems to have been interested in almost everything.
2 Audiobooks
A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
by Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble) Bayne
On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara
by Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble) Bayne
About the author
Born in Ulster on November 11, 1844, Samuel Gamble Bayne was educated in Belfast before leaving for the United States in 1869. Contemporary biographical listings describe him as a banker, and later records also connect him with the American oil industry, showing how much of his career was built in the fast-changing business world of the late 19th century.
Bayne also wrote widely. Catalog records and library listings attribute to him books including On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara, A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel, The Pith of Astronomy (Without Mathematics), The Bankers' Hall of Fame, with Twenty Niches, and Derricks of Destiny. Taken together, those titles show an author whose interests stretched from travel and science to finance and history.
He died in April 1924. What stands out now is the range of his life: immigrant businessman, public-minded figure, and prolific author who wrote from firsthand experience and a strong appetite for discovery.