Cyril Bailey
Cyril Bailey,
Early life
He was born on 13 April 1871 to Alfred Bailey, a barrister and legal scholar, and his wife Fanny Margaret, née Coles, a merchant's daughter. His godfather (and cousin) was the banker and classical scholar Sir Walter Leaf. Cyril attended St Paul's School in London, before studying classics at Balliol College, Oxford (1890–94); he won the Craven and Hertford scholarships.[1]
Academic career and honours
After graduating with a
Bailey also served as the Public Orator for the University of Oxford between 1932 and 1939, chairman of the council of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921 to 1939, and as a delegate of Oxford University Press from 1921 to 1946, in the latter role being involved in the production of the Oxford Latin Dictionary which was published in 1968. His own research focused on the classical philosophers Lucretius and Epicurus.[1]
Alongside receiving five
Selected works
- Lvcreti de Rervm Natvra Libri Sex, Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900; 2nd ed., 1922).[4]
- The Religion of Ancient Rome (London: A. Constable & Co, 1907).
- Lucretius on the Nature of Things (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910).
- P. Ovidi Nasonis Fastorum Liber III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921).
- The Clouds of Aristophanes, Clarendon Series of Latin and Greek Authors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921).
- The Legacy of Rome (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923).
- Epicurus: The Extant Remains (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926).
- (editor) Mind of Rome (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926).
- The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928).
- Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932).
- Religion in Virgil (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935).
- Francis Fortescue Urquhart: A Memoir (London: Macmillan and Co., 1936).
- De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947).
- Hugh Percy Allen (London: Oxford University Press, 1948).
- Lucretius (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949).
- A Short History of the Balliol Boys' Club, 1907–1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950).
Further reading
- Walter Oakeshott, "Cyril Bailey, 1871–1958", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 46 (1960), pp. 295–308
Notes
- ^ Mary Creighton Bailey (19 September 1913 – 16 August 2008). GRO index: Births Sep 1913 Bailey Mary. Mother Creighton. Headington 3a 2134. Her birth certificate says: Headington, County of Oxford. Birth nineteenth September 1913. 7 (or 1) Banbury Road, St Giles, Oxford. Mary, daughter of Cyril Bailey and Gemma Bailey formerly Creighton. Father: fellow of Balliol Cellege. Informant: Cyril Bailey, father, 7 (or 1) Banbury Road, Oxford.
References
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2013). Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ Jill Moss, "Rachel Moss", The Guardian, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "The Very Rev. Basil Moss", The Times (London), 3 April 2006, p. 50.
- The Classical Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 1 (2000), pp. 306–307.