Frederick Marshman Bailey
Frederick Marshman Bailey | |
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Born | 3 February 1882 |
Died | 17 April 1967 (aged 85) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
Occupations | British Army officer, explorer, spy, botanist and zoologist |
Awards | Order of the Indian Empire Fellow of Royal Geographical Society MacGregor Medal |
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Frederick Marshman Bailey
Early life
Born in Lahore, India on 3 February 1882, Bailey was the son of Lt Col Frederick Bailey of the Royal Engineers of the British Army, Head of the Indian Forestry Service, and his wife, Florence Agnes Marshman.[5] The younger Bailey was usually called "Eric".[6] His family returned to Britain in 1890 and they lived at 7 Drummond Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town. He was educated nearby at Edinburgh Academy.
He later studied at
Explorer
He later travelled in unknown parts of
Bailey transferred himself from the Indian Army to the Political Department to get appointments on the Tibetan frontier. In 1911, he crossed China and southern Tibet to Assam in a failed attempt to reach the 150 ft falls on the
In 1914, Bailey was honoured with the
First World War
On 4 September 1914 Bailey was appointed as a captain with the 6th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry at Dublin. He served on the
He was appointed a
He was sent back to India, where he served as
In December 1917, he was sent to South Persia, where he served until February 1918 as a political officer and was then in Chinese and Russian Turkistan from 1918 to 1920.
He was a temporary lieutenant-colonel from 1 April 1918 to 30 May 1920.
Mission to Tashkent
One of Bailey's more well-known adventures occurred in 1918, when he travelled to
Later life
In 1921 Bailey married Hon. Irma, daughter of Baron Cozens-Hardy.
He was the Political Officer for Sikkim and Tibet, stationed in Gangtok (Sikkim) from June 1921 to October 1928, and he made annual visits to Tibet to inspect the Gyantse Trade Agency and visited Lhasa from 16 July to 16 August 1924, accompanied by the Medical Officer, Major J. Hislop IMS.
He helped
He was among the earliest to import the Lhasa Apso breed of dog into Britain.[12] He was in contact with others interested in Central Asia, including Richard Meinertzhagen.
He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 28 July 1926.
He was the Resident at Baroda, Central India from 1930 to 32 and was the Resident in Kashmir in 1932 to 1933.
In February 1935, he was appointed His Majesty's
He retired from the Indian Army on 3 February 1937 and, during the Second World War, served as a King's Messenger to Central and South America between 1942 and 1943.
Bailey died on April 17, 1967.
Works
- Bailey, F. M. "From the outposts: A quiet day in Tibet", in: Blackwood's Magazine, 181;1144:270-5
- Bailey, F. M. (1914). "Exploration on the Tsangpo or upper Brahmaputra". Scottish Geographical Magazine. 30 (11): 561–582. .
- Bailey, F. M. China-Tibet-Assam: A Journey, 1911 (London: Cape, 1945)
- Bailey, F. M. (1946). Mission to Tashkent. London: J. Cape. OCLC 988861242. Republished by Oxford University Press in 1992 and 2002 with Peter Hopkirk as editor.)
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link - Bailey, F. M. No Passport to Tibet (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957)
Legacy
Bailey is commemorated in the scientific names of three species: a Tibetan snake (
See also
- London Gazette
- Indian Army List (various dates)
- Wellington College Register
- The Times
References
- ^ Anon, Obituary: Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey, C.I.E., Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume 54, 1967, Issue 2, pp. 223-225. Retrieved 9 November 201.
- ^ Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC. (BMNH 1938 7-15)
- ^ a b c Anon. (1967) Obituary: Lt.-Col. F. M. Bailey, C. I. E. 1882-1967. The Geographical Journal 133: 427-428.
- ^ Papers at Mss Eur F157, photographs at Photo 1083.
- ^ Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing, by Mark Cocker
- ^ ODNB: Frederick Marshman Bailey
- ^ Bailey, F.M. 1911
- ISSN 0041-770X– via archive.org.
- ^ "No. 29024". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1915. p. 3.
- ^ Bailey 1946, pp. 224–227
- ^ Bailey, F. M., "A Visit to Bokhara in 1919", The Geographical Journal > Vol. 57, No. 2 (Feb., 1921), pp. 75–87.
- ^ Bailey, Eric (1937) Dogs from the Roof of the World : Many unusual Breeds Found in Tibet the Strange Land That Lies in the Clouds. American Kennel Gazette 25(3) "The AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE". Archived from the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved 12 December 2006.
- ^ "No. 34133". The London Gazette. 15 February 1935. p. 1091.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bailey, F. M.", p. 14).
- ^ Pocock R. I. (1914) Description of a new species of goral (Naemorhedus) shot by Captain F. M. Bailey.
- ^ "Meconopsis baileyi – Himalayan Blue Poppy". 14 June 2012.
Further reading
- Anon. "Obituaries: Lt.-Col; Frederick Marshman Bailey, C.I.E., 1882-1967". Ibis, 1967:615-616
- Anon. "Frederick Bailey, World War I Spy; British Colonel Dies at 85 --An Explorer in Tibet", The New York Times, 20 April 1967.
- Brysac, Shareen Blair and Karl E. Meyer. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 1999).
- Cocker, Mark. Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing. (London: Secker & Warburg, 1992; New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.).
- Hopkirk, Peter. Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia. (London: Kodansha International, 1984).
- McKay, Alex. Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre 1904-1947 (London: School of African and Oriental Studies, 1997; Richmond, Curzon Press, 1997)
- ISBN 978 1 444 73702 8
- Myers, Alex. Eccentric Explorers: Frederick Marshman Bailey, explorersweb.com.
- Riscoe, V.S. "Obituary: Col. F. M. Bailey, C.I.E.", The Himalayan Journal, 28 (1968)
- Swinson, Arthur. Beyond the Frontiers. The Biography of Colonel F.M. Bailey Explorer and Special Agent (London: Hutchinson of London, 1971)
- Wolff, Jo. "Escape from Tashkent", 27 February 2018, rsgs.org.
- Wolff, Jo. "The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorge – Part Two", rsgs.org