Wilfred Russell Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk (27 June 1891 – 12 January 1948), was a
British peer
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and soldier.
Glanusk was the son of
Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk (26 October 1864 – 11 January 1928), was a British Army officer and peer.
Early life
Bailey was the eldest son of Sir Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baronet, who was created Baron Glanusk in 1899, when his c ...
, and succeeded his father as third Baron in 1928. He achieved the rank of
colonel
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in the
Grenadier Guards
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and also served as
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. After 1723, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire. The office was abolished on 31 March 1974 and replaced with the Lord Lieutenant of Powys, wit ...
from 1928 to 1948.
On 27 February 1919, while still Wilfred Bailey, Glanusk married firstly Victoria Mary Enid Ann Dugdale, a daughter of Colonel Frank Dugdale and Eva Sarah Louise Greville. They were divorced in 1939. On 17 March 1942 he married secondly Margaret Eldrydd Shoubridge, daughter of Major-General
Herbert Shoubridge
Major General (Thomas) Herbert Shoubridge CB, CMG, DSO (1871–1923) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Military career
Shoubridge was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment as a second ...