Sir John Bilsland Bailey KCB (5 November 1928 – 22 February 2021) was a British solicitor and public servant.
[1] Bailey was born in Eltham, London to Walter Bailey, who ran the Lord Derby pub opposite Woolwich Arsenal,[2] and composer Ethel Edith Bilsland, who married secondly Sir Thomas George Spencer,[1] a telecommunications executive.
He was appointed an Under-Secretary in the Treasury Solicitor's Department in 1973, later serving as Legal Director of the Office of Fair Trading between 1977 and 1979, when he became Deputy Treasury Solicitor.
He was promoted in 1984 to HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, serving until 1988.
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