Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk

Who was Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk?

Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk CB CBE DSO, was a British peer.

Glanusk was the eldest son of Joseph Russell Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk, and succeeded his father in the barony in 1906. Lord Glanusk married Editha Elma, daughter of Major Warden Sergison, in 1890. He died in January 1928, aged 63 leaving the ancestral home, Glanusk Park, and his titles to his son Wilfred Russell Bailey. Lady Glanusk died in 1938.

In 1885 he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was promoted Captain in 1896 and Major in 1900 or 1901. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1901 and retired in 1903. He then became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, Territorial Force.

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Breconshire in March 1887, and succeeded his father in the appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Breconshire in 1905, a post he held until his death.