Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet

Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet (21 January 1783-20 November 1858), was a British ironmaster and Member of Parliament.

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Bailey was the younger son of John Bailey, of Wakefield. He was involved in the iron industry in South Wales and also represented Worcester in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1847 and Breconshire 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. Lady Bailey died in 1874.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Henry Hastings Davies George Richard Robinson	Member of Parliament for Worcester with George Richard Robinson 1835–1837 Thomas Henry Hastings Davies 1837–1841 Thomas Wilde 1841–1846 Sir Denis Le Marchant 1846–1847 1835–1847	Succeeded by Osman Ricardo Francis Rufford
Preceded by Thomas Wood	Member of Parliament for Breconshire 1847–1858	Succeeded by Godfrey Charles Morgan
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baronet (of Glanusk Park)	Succeeded by Joseph Russell Bailey

References

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

Category: Ironmasters