About: John Bailey (solicitor)

Sir John Bilsland Bailey KCB (5 November 1928 – 22 February 2021) was a British solicitor and public servant. Bailey was born to Walter Bailey (died 1932) and the composer Ethel Edith Bilsland, who married secondly Sir , a telecommunications executive. He was educated at Eltham College and graduated from University College London with a law degree and was admitted as a solicitor in 1954. He was appointed an Under-Secretary in the Treasury Solicitor's Department in 1973, and then served 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 be HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, serving until 1988.