Benjamin Bailey (missionary)

Benjamin Bailey
The statue of Benjamin Bailey at the CMS Press compound, Kottayam
Born
Benjamin Bailey

(1791-11-00)November 1791
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Died3 April 1871(1871-04-03) (aged 79)
Sheinton, Shropshire, England
Known forTranslating Bible into Malayalam language, Standardized the Malayalam types, Compiled the first Dictionary in Malayalam, first principal of CMS College, Kottayam[1]
SpouseElizabeth 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,[2] 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.

  1. ^ "Benjamin Bailey Foundation". Archived from the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  2. ^ "The Church Missionary Atlas (India)". Adam Matthew Digital. 1896. pp. 95–156. Retrieved 19 October 2015.