Ernest H. Bayer

Bayer was sent to England for education, attending Hanwell College, Middlesex, then studied architecture,[where?]

The partnership dissolved late 1884,[4] Bayer returned to a solo practice in Grenfell Chambers, and Withall took their head draftsman Alfred Wells into partnership as Withall & Wells, with offices in Register Chambers, Grenfell Street.

Other notable associates were J. Quinton Bruce, Henry Ernest Fuller and Louis Laybourne Smith.

They had four daughters and three sons They had a home on Brougham Place, North Adelaide, later on Smith Terrace, Glenelg.

His sister Lucy Gray Bayer married Sydney Constantine Tolley on 7 April 1881