Percy Mollineux Bayley (21 December 1879Bayley,Percy Mollineux
– Tasmanian Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 17 April 2016. – 16 August 1942) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

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from 1915 to 1920. Bayley was born at Franklin, Tasmania, the son of James Mollineux Bayley and his wife Mary Alice (née Frencham). He was educated at

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and then attended the Gatton Agricultural College, where he studied cheese and butter making. Following his graduation from Gatton, he was appointed manager of the Pittsworth Co-Op Dairy Association in 1899. Bayley successfully expanded the company's operations, establishing branches across the district and turning around the company's fortunes, although an attempt at establishing a butter factory was less successful. Bayley, a member of the Queensland Farmers Union, won the seat of Pittsworth in the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1915 state election. He was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in the same year, suffering head injuries so severe that "his recovery was regarded as miraculous". Bayley was re-elected as an "Independent Nationalist" in 1918 after a deal to swap contingency votes with the endorsed National candidate. However, in 1920, with the increasing formalisation of a Country Party, he fell out with the Primary Producers' Union over the holding of a preselection plebiscite, withdrew his name from contention, and contested the election as an "Independent Country Party" candidate. He was soundly defeated at the 1920 election by endorsed Country Party candidate

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. Bayley was the chairman of the Pittsworth State School Committee, and one of his achievements as a state MP was achieving the relocation of the school to a more suitable site. Bayley became a farmer after his political career, owning a property at Brookstead for many years before selling and purchasing a property at

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. He worked the Oakey property with one of his sons until his death. He died at

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in 1942 and was buried in the

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.Deceased search
– Toowoomba Regional Council Retrieved 17 April 2016.Wikipedia citation Bayley married Mary Elizabeth Evans (died 1968)Family history research
– Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 17 April 2016. on 6 September 1904 and together had two sons and three daughters. His sister, Irene Longman, was the first woman to stand and be elected to the

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, while his brother, James Bayley, was a long-serving federal MP who also had a brief stint as a state MP.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayley, Percy Mollineux Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1879 births 1942 deaths