Raymond Frederick Bailey (25 November 1935 – 15 February 2012) was a member of the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

. He was first elected to the now abolished Division of Cornwall on 26 May 1990. He was re-elected in the 1996

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

election. Bailey became President of the Legislative Council on 17 June 1997, a position which he held until 4 May 2002. In 1999 a redistribution tribunal abolished his electorate of Cornwall, because of the reduction in the size of parliament. Instead he automatically became member for Rosevears; this new electorate included much of Cornwall anyway. He retired in 2002, and died in 2012.

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* Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 1935 births 2012 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Presidents of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub