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Life Summary

Name	Sir Harold Walter Bailey
Born	16 December, 1899 Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Died	11 January, 1996 (aged 96) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cause of Death	heart disease
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Passenger Ship *	Orontes (1910) (passenger)
Education *	University of Western Australia (student, 1922-1927) Oxford University (student, 1927-1933)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1924-1925) Western Australia, Australia university teacher (1926-1927) Western Australia, Australia academic (1929-1967) Overseas philologist (1929-1967) Overseas
Awards	Lady Hackett prize for classics (University of Western Australia) (recipient, 1923) Hackett bursaries (University of Western Australia) (recipient, 1927) Nubar Pasha Armenian scholarship (Oxford University) (recipient, 1928) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1960) Gold Medal (Royal Asiatic Society) (recipient, 1971) Denis Sinor medal (Royal Asiatic Society) (recipient, 1993)
Key Organisations *	British Academy (fellow, 1944) Philological Society (UK) (president, 1948-1952) Royal Asiatic Society (president, 1964-1967) Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1970) Society for Afghan Studies (president, 1972-1979) Ancient India and Iran Trust (co-founder, 1978) Ancient India and Iran Trust (chair, 1981)
Workplaces *	Guildford Grammar School (WA) (schoolteacher, 1924-1925) University of Western Australia (classics) (tutor, 1926-1927) University of London (academic, 1929-1936) Cambridge University (UK) (academic, 1936) Royal Institute of International Affairs (employee, 1942-1945)

* Dates are approximate