James Bailey (died 1864) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster.

Life

He was educated at

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. He graduated B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, and obtained the Browne medals for Greek ode and epigrams, and the members' prizes in 1815 and 1816. He was for many years master of the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge, from which he retired on a pension. In 1850 he received a further pension of £100 per annum from the queen, on the recommendation of Bishops

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and John Kaye. Bailey died in London, 13 February 1864.

Works

Besides contributions to the ''

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'', Bailey published: * 'An Annotated Edition of Dalzel's Analecta Græca Minora' (1835) (edition of work by

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). * 'Passages from the Greek Comic Poets,' which had been translated into English by

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, and

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, with notes (1840); * a work on the 'Origin and Nature of Hieroglyphics and the Greek inscription on the Rosetta Stone' (1816). He is best known for his edition of 'Forcellini's Latin Dictionary,' 2 vols. (1826), in which he translated the Italian explanations into English, incorporated the appendices of

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with the main work, and added an ''Auctarium'' of his own.

References

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, James Year of birth missing 1864 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English classical scholars English male writers