He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, son of the architect Charles Baily. He married May Clayton.
He lived in Bulcote Manor until 1914.
He married Eleanor Corah in 1928.
On his death in 1942 he was living in Bowyers Court, Wisborough Green, Suffolk.
He was articled in 1885 in the offices of Martin and Hardy, Brewing and Malting engineers, then Sir Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 2 December 1901. New Bolsover model village, Old Bolsover, Derbyshire 1891-1894 Saint John"s Church, Colston Bassett 1892 Albert Mill, Gamble Street, Nottingham 1893 Church of the Holy Rood, Edwalton 1894 104-106 Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham 1895 – 1897 Bardencroft, Tweed Street, Saltburn 1897 Turkish Baths, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham 1898 (demolished 1962) Street John the Baptist, South Witham, Lincolnshire 1898 – 1901 29 and 31, (Ram Hotel), Long Row, Nottingham 1899 Creswell CofE Infants School, Elmton Road, Elmton, Bolsover, Derbyshire 1900 Long Eaton Wesleyan Methodist Church 1903 – 1904 Carriageway Block, Queens Road, Nottingham 1908 Territorial Headquarters for the 7th Sherwood Foresters, Derby Road, Nottingham (later used by the Post Office, and now residential accommodation) 1910 – 1912 Nottingham Road Methodist Church, Mansfield 1913 Pedestrian Bridge over Hounds Gate, Nottingham 1920 – 1921 War Memorial at Burton Joyce 1920 Albert Ball Memorial Homes, Lenton, Nottingham 1921 Memorial to Captain Albert Ball Venture capital in Nottingham Castle 1921.
Memorial to the Robin Hood Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in the chancel of Street Mary"s Church, Nottingham 1921 Alterations to Brackenhurst Hall He was made a Second Lieutenant in the Robin Hood Rifles on 11 December 1895.
He was made Captain in 1900. He was appointed temporary Major on 19 December 1914.
He was injured in combat in April 1915 and lost a hand. This prevented his architects career restarting after the war, and he retired.
