John Bailey (solicitor)

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Sir John Bilsland Bailey

KCB (5 November 1928 – 22 February 2021) was a British solicitor and public servant.[1]

Bailey was born in Eltham, London to Walter Bailey, who ran the Lord Derby pub opposite Woolwich Arsenal,[2] and composer Ethel Edith Bilsland, who married secondly Sir Thomas George Spencer,[1] a telecommunications executive.[3] His first cousin was actor John Bailey.[2]

Bailey attended

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, serving until 1988.[4][5][6][7]

Bailey was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1982 New Year Honours, and he was promoted to Knight Commander in the 1987 Birthday Honours.[8][9] He died in London from pneumonia on 22 February 2021, at the age of 92.[10]

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ a b "Sir John Bailey obituary". The Times. 3 April 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Sir Thomas Spencer is Dead; Telecommunications Executive". The New York Times. 3 March 1976.
  4. ^ "Bailey, Sir John Bilsland", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  5. ^ The Solicitors' and Barristers' Directory and Diary (1986), vol. 1, p. 86.
  6. ^ The London Gazette, 12 September 1984 (no. 49866), p. 12387.
  7. ^ The London Gazette, 16 November 1988 (no. 51532), p. 12828.
  8. ^ The London Gazette, 30 December 1981 (no. 48837), p. 3.
  9. ^ The London Gazette, 12 June 1987 (no. 50948), p. 2.
  10. ^ "Births, Marriages and Deaths", The Times (London), 2 March 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
Legal offices
Preceded by
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor

1984–1988
Succeeded by