Percy Bayley

Percy Mollineux Bayley (21 December 1879 – 16 August 1942) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1915 to 1920.

Bayley was born at Franklin, Tasmania, the son of James Mollineux Bayley and his wife Mary Alice (née Frencham).

Bayley, a member of the Queensland Farmers Union, won the seat of Pittsworth in the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1915 state election. He was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in the same year, suffering head injuries so severe that "his recovery was regarded as miraculous". Bayley was re-elected as an "Independent Nationalist" in 1918 after a deal to swap contingency votes with the endorsed National candidate. However, in 1920, with the increasing formalisation of a Country Party, he fell out with the Primary Producers' Union over the holding of a preselection plebiscite, withdrew his name from contention, and contested the election as an "Independent Country Party" candidate. He was soundly defeated at the 1920 election by endorsed Country Party candidate Cecil Roberts. Bayley was the chairman of the Pittsworth State School Committee, and one of his achievements as a state MP was achieving the relocation of the school to a more suitable site.

Bayley married Mary Elizabeth Evans on 6 September 1904 and together had two sons and three daughters.