John Bailey (solicitor)

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 (died 1932), who ran the Lord Derby pub opposite Woolwich Arsenal,[2] and the composer Ethel Edith Bilsland, who married secondly Sir Thomas George Spencer,[1] a telecommunications executive.[3] His first cousin was the actor John Bailey.[2]

He was educated at Eltham College and graduated from University College London with a law degree and was admitted as a solicitor in 1954. He was appointed an Under-Secretary in the Treasury Solicitor's Department in 1973, and then served as Legal Director of the Office of Fair Trading between 1977 and 1979, when he became Deputy Treasury Solicitor. He was promoted in 1984 to be 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 22 February 2021, at the age of 92.[10]

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 220. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. "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.


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