Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bailey, John Eglington
BAILEY, John Eglington, F.S.A., born Feb. 13, 1840, at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, was educated at Boteler's Free Grammar School, Warrington, and Owens College, Manchester. For many years he has been connected with the Manchester branch of the large mercantile firm of Messrs. Ralli Brothers. In 1876 he was appointed a member of the Council of the Chetham Society, and is now its secretary. Mr. Bailey has published "The Life of Thomas Fuller, D.D., with Notices of his Books, his Kinsmen, and his Friends," 1874; a collection of Dr. Fuller's "Sermons," a "Memoir of Henry Clarke," 1877; and "Inventories of Church Goods of Lancashire, 1552" (for the Chetham Society), 1878. Amongst other tracts he has edited the "Manchester al Mondo" of the first Earl of Manchester (1638). He has also contributed a large number of papers to local and other journals, relating to biography, history, and bibliography, and mostly connected with Lancashire and Cheshire. The "Bibliographical History of Shorthand," perhaps his most interesting work, still remains in MS. In 1881 Mr. Bailey established The Palatine Note-Book, an illustrated monthly antiquarian and bibliographical journal, circulating in Lancashire, Cheshire, and the North of England, which has been called the Notes and Queries of that district. It has contained a memoir of Dr. John Ferriar, and several other papers from his pen.