(16 Aug. 1928-9 Sept. 2000), clergyman. (Dr Frank Bailey) Born in Barbados. He was trained as a clergyman in Barbados, and served there as a minister of the Pilgrim Holiness Church, a denomination which had broken from the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He was married in 1956 to Felicia Barton. (four children) In 1966 he and his family settled in Canada, where he found he had to retrain before he could become a minister of the United Church. He received his B.Th. degree in 1973 from McGill and his M.Div. degree in 1976 from United Theological College. After service as United Church minister at several places in Canada, he was, from 1981 till his retirement in 1993, the United Church minister of the Maxville-Moose Creek charge. He was probably the first black minister in GC. In retirement, he lived in Maxville. He received an honorary D.D. in May 1999 from United Theological College, Montreal. He died at Glengarry Memorial Hospital, Alexandria, and is buried in Maxville Cemetery. The bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall was among the people attending his funeral. In Feb. 2001 Mrs Bailey became a resident of Maxville Manor. One of their sons, John, aged 19, was tragically murdered in Montreal in 1976 in a dispute following a car accident.

Glengarry News 13 & 20 Sept. 2000, Vankleek Hill Review 13 Sept. 2000 * autobiographical articles by Dr Bailey and his wife, repr. Manor Chatter (June & July 2000) from Fellowship Magazine * memorial issue dedicated to his memory, Manor Chatter Oct. 2000 * Maxville (1991) 458-459 * hon. degree: GN 19 May 1999, & Vankleek Hill Review 26 May 1999