Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk

Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (26 October 1864 – 11 January 1928), was a British Army officer and peer.

Early life Bailey was the eldest surviving son of Sir Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baronet, who was created Baron Glanusk in 1899. He succeeded his father in both titles in 1906.

Military career On 7 February 1885, in the same class as Douglas Haig, Walter Congreve and Sydney Lawford, Bailey was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and he was promoted captain on 11 November 1896. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, a corps of imperial volunteers from London was formed in late December 1899. The corps included infantry, mounted infantry and artillery divisions and was authorized with the name City of London Imperial Volunteers. It proceeded to South Africa in January 1900, returned in October the same year, and was disbanded in December 1900. Captain Bailey was appointed as Adjutant to the infantry division on 3 January 1900, with the temporary rank of Major in the Army, and served as such until the corps was disbanded. He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 29 November 1900, and awarded a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his services in South Africa later the same year. After his return to the United Kingdom, he was on 1 June 1901 appointed to command the Guards' depot at Caterham, Surrey.

He retired from the Grenadier Guards in 1903, and became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the part-time 3rd (Royal South Wales Borderers Militia) Battalion, South Wales Borderers, on 9 April 1904. After he succeeded to the barony, he was also appointed to succeed his father as Honorary Colonel of the 1st (Brecknockshire) Volunteer Battalion, South Wales Borderers, on 1 June 1907. Having been appointed a CB in 1911, he was also made a CBE in 1919 at the end of the war. and succeeded his father in the appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Breconshire in 1905, a post he held until his death.

No sooner he had finished the sentence, Bailey staggered back and grasped his chair before turning to the Bishop of Swansea (who was also present at the opening), asserting "Just hold me up, please", after which he held his heart and collapsed into the chair. Two doctors who were present at the opening took Bailey into the hospital which moments prior he had been in the process of opening, while his son, Wilfred, continued the speech. Once the speech was concluded, the doctors emerged from the hospital with the announcement that not eight minutes after he had begun his speech, Lord Glanusk had died. He was 63.

Bailey was succeeded in his title by his son, Wilfred Bailey, having passed the estates to him some time prior. Lady Glanusk died in 1938.

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