D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

D. R. Shackleton Bailey

British scholar

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1917

Place of Birth: Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Nov-2005

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist, latinist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.