Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet (21 January 1783 – 20 November 1858), was an
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Bailey was born in 1783 in
Great Wenham
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,
Suffolk
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, the son of John Bailey, of
Wakefield
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and his wife Susannah. His parents had moved from
Normanton, near Wakefield, in around 1780 by which time they had already had at least three children (Ann, Elizabeth and William). Joseph was the second child of a further five children to be born in Great Wenham (the others being an older sister, Susan, and three younger siblings, John, Thomas and
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He was involved in the iron industry in South Wales and served as
High Sheriff of Monmouthshire
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for 1826. He also represented
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in the
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from 1835 to 1847 and
Breconshire
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from 1847 to 1858. In 1852 he was created a Baronet, of
Glanusk Park estate in the
County of Brecon.
Bailey married, firstly, Maria, daughter of Joseph Latham, in 1810. In about 1826 he bought
Glanusk Park and had a mansion house built there. After his first wife's death in 1827 he married, secondly, Mary Anne, daughter of John Thomas Henry Hopper, in 1830. He died in November 1858, aged 75, and was succeeded in his title by his grandson
Joseph Russell Bailey, who in 1899 was elevated to the peerage as
Baron Glanusk
Baron Glanusk, of Glanusk Park in the County of Brecknock, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1899 for Sir Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baronet, who had earlier represented Herefordshire and Hereford in the House of Commons ...
. Lady Bailey died in 1874.
His daughter Jane Bailey married
James Stuart Menteath, 2nd Baronet of
Closeburn and Mansfield.
[Solicitors Journal and Reporter 5 March 1870]
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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Watkin William Price, M.A., (1873–1967), Aberdare, ''BAILEY , Sir JOSEPH ( 1783 - 1858 ), baronet, iron-master, landowner, and M.P.'' Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales, 200
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Welsh Biography Online
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