Crawshay Bailey Jr

[3] The grand three-storey house had a 2-storey porch with a single storey portico extending from it, headed by a balustrade and supported on Corinthian columns.

[4] The house was later demolished in the 1930s to make way for Maindiff Court Hospital[2] In 1873, Bailey married Elizabeth, Countess Bettina, daughter of the Count Metaxa.

[5] Bailey became an extremely popular figure in the Abergavenny area owing to his "benevolent and genial nature" and generous support of charitable institutions and projects in the town.

A marching band lead the procession of carriages carrying the happy couple and the rest of the Bailey family from the railway station through the town and on to Maindiff Court, where they were greeted by a choir of local schoolchildren.

Afterwards the crowd which had followed the procession adjourned to an adjoining field where the Baileys provided refreshments and later that evening entertainment in the form of a pyrotechnic display consisting of fireworks and bonfires lit on the surrounding hills.

In the months leading up to his death he had become a recluse, living in Monkstown, Dublin, apparently in the hope that the sea air would remedy his declining health.