OBITUARY: PROFESSOR D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY ; Latin Scholar Whose Edition of Cicero's Letters Is a Monument of 20th-Century Classical Scholarship

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D. R. Shackleton Bailey was a classical scholar of the 'severe and thorough' sort approved by A. E. Housman, those, to quote his own words, 'who like hard facts and the logic of facts and prefer results that last'. That, for him as well as for Housman, defined his life's work, the establishment and explication of Latin texts.

David Roy Shackleton Bailey " 'Shack' to friends " was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School, where his father was headmaster and where (as I learned many years later from a schoolmate) he was known as 'Boffles', and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After a predictable first class, with distinctions in Greek and Latin Verse …