Background
Born in Kottayam, India in 1827, son of Content Management System missionary Review Benjamin Bailey.
Anglican priests Consular Chaplain
Born in Kottayam, India in 1827, son of Content Management System missionary Review Benjamin Bailey.
As Consular Chaplain to the British Legation in Yokohama, Bailey was one of the first Anglican priests to serve in Japan. Background and Early Educated in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon in 1854 and priest in 1855, thereafter serving as curate in a number of parishes in and around London.
Appointed in December 1861 as the first Consular Chaplain to the British Legation in Yokohama.
Bailey arrived in Japan in August 1862 and stayed until 1874. Bailey was the appointed priest in charge of Christ Church, Yokohama, one of the first churches to be constructed in the recently opened treaty port.
As well as his church mission work, Bailey was noted for his role as a community organizer. Coordinating meetings in the wake of the Namamugi Incident in 1862.
In 1867 Bailey also established a Japanese language monthly periodical, The Bankoku Shimbunshi, publishing 18 volumes over the succeeding two years.
Returning to England in 1874, Bailey was serving as parish priest at Saint Stephen"s, Cold Norton, Essex at the time of his death in 1899.