 Abe Bailey

Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet (6 November 1864, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa – 10 August 1940, Muizenberg, South Africa) was a South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer.Married in 1860 in South Africa, Thomas and Ann Bailey had four children, Mary, Abraham, Susannah and Alice, before Ann Bailey's premature death in 1872, when young Abe was only seven years old.