Alan Bailey, the cartoonist, writer and founder of the property industry Placemakers club, died suddenly this week at the age of 73.
Bailey, as he was called, was best known for his Stackup cartoon strip that appeared for over two decades in Estates Times and latterly Property Week.
He wrote a regular series of profiles for Estates Gazette and half a dozen books, including a collection of his cartoons in 2000 called “Sex for Surveyors.”
“He was fabulously politically incorrect,” said Erik Brown, who was his editor at Estates Times in the late eighties. “He did whatever he wanted to do: writing, drawing, PR. He refused to be boxed off. A renaissance man.”
Bailey left the army intelligence corps in 1964 and later worked for the RICS.
Between 1969 – 1979 he was chief executive of the Sanctuary Housing Trust.
He then turned to writing books like “How to be a property developer” and “How to be an estate agent.”
Bailey also served as Director of the International Shakespear Globe Centre (1981-1990) and as a trustee of the Cyril Wood Memorial Trust (1980-1991).
He lived and worked for over 30 years in Belgravia where he and his “Baileys Angels” ran the PR agency ABS Communications.
His last book, only recently published, was on the threat of corruption, fraud and global terrorism.
EGi News 05/09/02
