Background
Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 13 February 1840, he was the son of Charles Bailey, by his wife Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Eglington of Ashbourne.
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John Bailey
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He completed his education by attending evening classes at Owens College, learned Pitman"s shorthand, and contributed articles to short-hand manuscript or lithographed magazines.
Career
Educated at Warrington grammar school, he entered in his teens the counting-house of Ralli Brothers in Manchester, and continued there till 1886. He interested himself in Thomas Fuller, delivered a lecture on him to the Manchester Phonographic Union, which was printed in Henry Pitman"s Popular Lecturer, and devoted his holidays to visiting Fuller"s various places of residence. In 1881 Bailey started a monthly antiquarian magazine, the Palatine Note-Book, which ran for just over four years and ceased with the forty-ninth number in 1885.
Bailey collected works on stenography with a view to writing its history, and built up a valuable library of antiquarian and general literature.
In 1886 illness put an end to his studies and projects. He died at Manchester on 23 August 1888, and was buried at Stretford church on 27 August.
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Membership
He was a Member of the Chetham Society, and served as a Member of Council from 1876 and as Secretary from 1882.
