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Benjamin Bailey
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Benjamin Bailey

British missionary (1791-1871)

Benjamin Bailey (November 1791 in Dewsbury – 3 April 1871 in Sheinton, Shropshire, England) was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala, India for 34 years. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he found a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 he established a Malayalam printing press.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Benjamin Bailey (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1791, died Apr 3, 1871.1

About

He translated the Bible into Malayalam, in 1846 published the first English-Malayalam dictionary, and in 1849 published the first Malayalam-English dictionary.

From Wikipedia’s article on Benjamin Bailey, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Career

Occupation: Bible translator, translator.4

Known for: A dictionary, English and Malayalim 1846, C.M.S. Press, Holy Trinity Cathedral.5

Personal life

  • Born1791, Dewsbury6
  • DiedApr 3, 1871, Shropshire7
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland8

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