Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet (21 January 1783 – 20 November 1858), was an English

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and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).

Background

Bailey was born in 1783 in Great Wenham,

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, the son of John Bailey, of

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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 Crawshay).

Political career

He was involved in the iron industry in South Wales and served as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1823-1824. He also represented

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in the

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from 1835 to 1847 and

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from 1847 to 1858. In 1852 he was created a Baronet, of Glanusk Park estate in the County of Brecon.

Family

Bailey married, firstly, Maria Latham, daughter of Joseph Latham, in 1810. They had eight children, of which the eldest son,

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, served as an MP for Sudbury. Their daughter Jane married

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, 2nd Baronet of Closeburn and Mansfield.Solicitors Journal and Reporter 5 March 1870. 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 Hopper, daughter of John Thomas Henry Hopper, in 1830. They had a daughter, Mary Anne Bertha, who married Alexander Young Spearman, son of Sir Alexander Spearman, 1st Baronet.

Death

Sir Joseph died in November 1858, aged 75. As his eldest son had predeceased him in 1850, he was succeeded in his title by a grandson, Joseph Russell Bailey, who in 1899 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glanusk. Lady Bailey died in 1874.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * 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

External links

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English ironmasters 19th-century English businesspeople Members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association People of the Industrial Revolution Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 High sheriffs of Monmouthshire 19th-century Welsh landowners