BAILEY, David Roy Shackleton. Lancaster 10.12.1917 — Ann Arbor 28.11.2005. British Classical Scholar and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Ann Arbor and Cambridge, Mass. Son of John Henry Shackleton Bailey, a schoolteacher and mathematician, and Rosamund Maund Giles, educated in Lancaster. During the war served in the code-breaking unit. Before and after war studies at Cambridge: B.A. 1939, M.A. 1942, Litt.D. 1958. From 1944 Fellow of Caius College, Lecturer of Tibetan at Cambridge in 1948-68 (in 1955 migrated from Caius to Jesus College), also Lecturer of Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1955-64. In 1968 emigrated to the U.S.A. In 1968-74 Professor of Latin and in 1975-82 Professor of Greek and Latin at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From 1982 Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Retired in 1988 and returned to Ann Arbor as adjunct Professor, teaching until 2002. Fellow of British Academy 1958. Hon. D.Litt. 1984 Dublin. Died of Alzheimer’s disease. Married 1967 Hilary Ann Bardwell (1928–2010, divorce 1975) and 1994 Kristine Zvirbulis (1946–2009).It seems that Bailey abandoned Tibetology after the 1950s and concentrated on classics. He was extremely fond of cats.
Publications: Many publications on Latin philology, e.g. on textual criticism of classical texts, edited Cicero’s letters and complete poems of Horace, etc.
– Articles and reviews on Buddhist Sanskrit literature and Tibetan, e.g.:
– “A Note on the Titles of Three Buddhist Stotras”, JRAS 1948, 55-60; “The Varṇārhavarṇa Stotra of Mātrceṭa”, BSOAS 13, 1950, 671-701, 810, 947-1003; “Notes on the Divyāvadāna”, JRAS 1950, 166-184 & 1951, 82-102; “Mecaka et le Sūtrālaṁkāra”, JA 240, 1952, 71-73; “The Jātakastava of Jñānayaśas”, Asiatica. Festschrift Fr. Weller. Lp. 1954, 22-29; “The Text of the Dharma–samuccaya”, JRAS 1955, 37-54 (notes).
– Edited in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese, translated: The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātrceṭa. 12+237 p. Cambridge 1951.
Sources: *E.J. Kenney, Oxford D.N.B. 2009 (online); J.T. Ramsey in dbcs.rutgers.edu, with photo; Directory of American Scholars 8th ed., vol. III, 1982; Wikipedia.
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