D. R. Shackleton Bailey
| D. R. Shackleton Bailey | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 10, 1917 |
| Died | November 28, 2005 (aged 87) Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Occupation | Classical scholar |
| Years active | 1944-2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Hilary Ann Bardwell (m. 1967-75, divorced) Kristine Zvirbulis (m. 1994-2005, his death) |
David Roy Shackleton Bailey FBA (10 December 1917 – 28 November 2005) was a British scholar of Latin literature (particularly in the field of textual criticism) who spent his academic life teaching at the University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, and Harvard. He is best known for his work on Horace (editing his complete works for the Teubner series), and Cicero, especially his commentaries and translations of Cicero's letters.
Shackleton Bailey was the youngest of four children born to John Henry Shackleton Bailey and Rosmund Maud (née Giles). After being educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where his mathematician father was headmaster, Shackleton Bailey read first Classics and then Oriental Studies at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, before spending the years of the Second World War at Bletchley Park, the home of the British code-breaking efforts. He returned to Caius as a fellow in 1944, and in 1948 obtained a lectureship in Tibetan at Cambridge University. In 1955 he migrated to Jesus College, Cambridge, where, as Director of Studies in Classics, he began publishing the long series of books and articles on Latin authors that would occupy the rest of his life. He spent four more years at Caius from 1964 to 1968, this time serving as Bursar and Senior Bursar; his move this time was reputedly because Sir Denys Page, Master of Jesus, refused to allow Shack (as he was commonly known) to have a cat-flap installed in his ancient oak door. In 1968 he crossed the Atlantic, specifically to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and in 1976 he moved to Harvard University (whose Classics department he had visited in 1963), first as Professor of Greek and Latin, then (from 1982) as Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He twice served as the editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1980-1981 and 1983-1985). In 1988 he retired from Harvard and became an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan.
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