Nathan Bailey , was an English philologist and lexicographer.
Education
William Thomas Whitley attributes to him a degree of LL.D.
Career
He was the author of the Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721) a very popular publication and a forerunner of Dr. Johnson's dictionary. He was probably excluded from the congregation by 1718. Later he had a school at Stepney.
Religion
Bailey was a Seventh Day Baptist, admitted 1691 to a congregation in Whitechapel, London.