Background
Bailey was born in Nottingham on 31 July 1785.
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Career
His education was received partly in a day school in his native town, and partly in a boarding school at Gillingham, Yorkshire. Afterwards he was for some time engaged in business as a silk-hosier. In 1836 he was elected to the town council, and he continued to be a member for seven years.
In 1845-1846 he became proprietor and editor of the Nottingham Mercury, but his opinions were considered too temperate by his readers.
In the following year the journal declared bankrupt. In 1830, he purchased a mansion at Basford, near Nottingham, where he spent the later years of his life, engaged in literary pursuits and in the formation of a collection of books and engravings.
He died at Basford on 23 October 1856.
Politics
A liberal in politics, he came forward, unsuccessfully, in 1830 as a candidate for the representation of the borough of Nottingham. The circulation of the paper declined, and in 1851 the mass of subscribers withdrew in protest at Bailey"s views respecting the original error of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and his prophecies of its inevitable failure.
