Crawshay bailey biography

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Crawshay Bailey (1789 – 9 January 1872) was an English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales.
Crawshay Bailey was born in the year 1789 the youngest son of John Bailey of Wakefield in Yorkshire and Susannah the sister of Richard Crawshay.

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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bailey, John Crawshay

BAILEY. (Lieutenant, 1844.)

John Crawshay Bailey, born 22 May, 1818, is third son of Joseph Bailey, Esq., of Glanusk Park, co. Brecon (Representative of Worcester in the three last parliaments, and Deputy-Lieutenant for the co. of Monmouth, a gentleman of considerable landed property and well known for his extensive iron-works at Nant-y-Glo), by his first wife, Maria, fourth daughter of Joseph Latham, Esq.; a younger brother of Joseph Bailey, Esq., of Easton Park, co. Hereford, M.P. for that shire; and grandnephew of the late Rich. Crawshay, Esq., of Cyfartha Iron-works, Glamorganshire.

This officer entered the Navy in 1834; passed his examination 14 Dec. 1840; and, after an intermediate attachment, as Mate, to the Seringapatam 46, Capt. John Leith, in North America and the West Indies, and Agincourt 72, bearing the fiag in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was promoted to his present rank, 27 Aug. 1844. He continued to serve in the Agincourt until 1 April, 1845, and since that period has been employed i

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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Crawshay Bailey (1789-1872), iron-master and M.P.

1789 Born, the younger son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay, iron-master of Cyfarthfa Ironworks.

c.1801 Joined his older brother, Joseph, at Cyfarthfa, working in their rich uncle's iron-works.

1809 Uncle died; at some point Crawshay left Cyfarthfa

1820 Partner in the Nantyglo Ironworks on Matthew Wayne's departure.

The two brothers developed the Nant-y-glo works, and, later on, the Beaufort Ironworks.

1825 William Crawshay, his cousin (the then proprietor of Cyfarthfa Ironworks), may have prevented Crawshay Bailey from continuing as owner of Rhymney Iron Works.

Crawshay Bailey constructed the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg

Foreseeing the potential of the South Wales coal basin, he bought up many large areas at their agricultural value — at Aberaman , Mountain Ash , and in the Rhondda valley.

1833 The Bailey brothers, Crawshay and Joseph, acquired Beaufort Ironworks from Messrs. Kendall and Co and added it to thei

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Crawshay Bailey

English industrialist

Crawshay Bailey (1789 – 9 January 1872) was an English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales.

Early life

Bailey was born in 1789 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, the son of John Bailey, of Wakefield and his wife Susannah. His parents had moved from Normanton, near Wakefield in around 1780 by which time they had already had at least three children (Ann, Elizabeth and William). Crawshay was the youngest of six children to be born in Great Wenham (the others being Susan, Joseph, John, and Thomas). His mother, Susannah was the sister of Richard Crawshay, the ironmaster based at Cyfarthfa Castle near Merthyr Tydfil where Crawshay Bailey came at the age of twelve to work for his rich uncle in 1801, joining his elder brother Joseph. In 1809 he was a witness to his rich uncle's will, in which he was bequeathed the sum of £1,000 (equivalent to £90,000 in 2023).

Early business career: the iron master

Crawshay Bailey's early career was overshadowed by that of his elder brother, Joseph, later Sir Joseph B