John Oliver Bayley was a British academic, literary critic and writer. He was the Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992. His first marriage was to the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch.
- Occupation
- literary critic, biographer, literary scholar, philologist
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 27, 1925
- Died
- January 12, 2015
