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Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bailey, Henry

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BAILEY, The Rev. Henry, D.D., late Warden of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, and Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, is a son of the late Rev. Henry Ives Bailey, vicar of North Leverton, Notts, and author of "The Liturgy compared with the Bible." He was born in 1815, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839, and obtained the Crosse and the Tyrwhitt University Scholarships. He became Fellow of his college, and Hebrew Lecturer; and graduated M.A. in 1842; B.D. in 1849; and D.D. in 1870. In 1850 he was appointed Warden of St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury, in succession to Bishop Coleridge. This post he held till the close of the year 1877, when he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the vicarage of West Tarring, Worthing. Dr. Bailey is the author of "Rituale Anglo-Catholicum" (1847); "The Missionary's Daily Text Book;" and other works. Bishop Blomfield, in 1851, appointed him Secretary to the Society for advancing the Christian Faith in the West Indies and in Mauritius.