Benjamin Bailey (missionary)
Benjamin Bailey | |
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| Born | Benjamin Bailey November 1791 |
| Died | 3 April 1871 (aged 79) Sheinton, Shropshire, England |
| Known for | Translating Bible into Malayalam language, Standardized the Malayalam types, Compiled the first Dictionary in Malayalam, first principal of CMS College, Kottayam |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Ella |
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. He translated the Bible into Malayalam, in 1846 published the first English-Malayalam dictionary, and in 1849 published the first Malayalam-English dictionary.