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Name: BAILEY, John Anthony

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Birth Date: 1864 Manchester

Death Date: 1.7.1942 Norwich

Nationality: British

First Date: 1890

Profession: Coast agent of the CMS

Area: Mombasa

Married: 1892 Mary Wase Harvey b. 1860 Crimplesham, Norfolk, d. 15 Oct 1947 Greenhaven Rumburgh, Suffolk, of CMS Rabai, arrived E. Africa 1885

Children: Anthony Drummond (1893 Freretown); Cuthbert Lionel Wase (1899 Freretown-1954); Basil Noel Victor (1900 Mombasa-1951)

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Tucker, EAHB 1905, EAS, Hall, North, Playne, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, CMS, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907

School: Greenheys School, Manchester

General Information:

The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Aged 25, appt. as CMS Accountant at Frere Town 6-12-1889; CMS Secretary in EA
Playne - The East African Industries Ltd - ' .... the company ..... is expecting to take over the coast agency of the CMS and a general agency - both now being conducted by Mr J.A. Bailey, who has been 20 years in the country in connection with the CMS, and has also acted for other missions and clients and as superintendent of the company since its formation; he has recently been appointed as its general manager in BEA .....…..'
Drumkey 1909 - Agent for The British and Foreign Bible Society
CMS - 1899 - Age 25. Born at Manchester. Clerk. Greenheys School, Manchester. 1889 Dec 6 appointment as Accountant, Frere Town, E. Africa approved. Furloughs:- 1893, April-Nov; 1897 March-Oct; 1900 June 16 to England travelling via Uganda and the Nile; 1901, Nov 14 to Mombasa. Married 1892, May 11, M.W. Harvey. Accepted by the CMS on special agreement at a time when it was not customary to include the names of Business Agents in the Registrar.
EA Diary 1903 - Coast Agent for CMS Uganda and Usagara Missions and Accountant for CMS BEA Mission
Tucker - Mr Bailey of the CMS went on board ship to welcome Bishop Tucker when he arrived in Mombasa in May 1890.
Hall - Missionaries at Mombasa photo 1895

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