James Bailey (classical scholar)
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James Bailey (died 1864) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. 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.[1] 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 Edward Maltby and John Kaye. Bailey died in London, 13 February 1864.
