D. R. Shackleton Bailey

David Roy Shackleton Bailey ( born December 10, 1917 in Lancaster, † November 28, 2005 in Ann Arbor ) was a British Latinist.

After visiting the Lancaster Royal Grammar School, whose headmaster was his father, studied " Shack " as he was called by his friends, Ancient Studies at the University of Cambridge. During the war he served in the military service at Bletchley Park, which successfully dealt with the deciphering of the German message traffic to return then to the University of Cambridge, first as a lecturer in Alttibetisch, then for Ancient Studies at Jesus College, and since 1964 at its old college, Gonville and Caius. Since 1968, Shackleton Bailey taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1975 he became a professor at Harvard University, where he received the 1982 Pope- Chair of Latin philology. After his retirement in 1988 he returned to the University of Michigan.

Shackleton Bailey's name is mainly due to the critical edition of many Latin writers known (eg Horace, Lucan and Martial ). The focus of his scientific activity was Cicero, especially his letters presented Shackleton Bailey in a comprehensive annotated edition in ten volumes.