Basil Baily

Captain Basil Edgar Baily FRIBA (14 January 1869 – 1942) was an architect based in Nottingham.

He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, son of the architect Charles Baily. He married May Clayton. He lived in Bulcote Manor until 1914. He went on to marry Eleanor Corah in 1928. On his death in 1942 he was living in Bowyers Court, Wisborough Green, Suffolk.

He was articled in 1885 in the offices of Martin and Hardy, Brewing and Malting engineers, then Sir Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto. He worked independently in Newark-on-Trent from 1891, and then in partnership with Arthur Brewill from 1894 until 1922. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 2 December 1901.

He was made a Second Lieutenant in the Robin Hood Rifles on 11 December 1895.

He was made Captain in 1900. He was appointed temporary Major on 19 December 1914. He was injured in combat in April 1915 and lost a hand. This prevented his architects career restarting after the war, and he retired.

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