William Frederick Bailey (9 February 1857 – 16 April 1917), was an Irish lawyer and writer. Bailey was born in Castletown Conyers, County Limerick,

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. He was educated in Trinity College Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar in 1881. He practised on the Munster Circuit and was Barrington lecturer in Political Economy TCD and Extern in English for the Intermediate Education Board. Bailey was one of the Secretaries to the Royal Commission on Irish Published Works (1880), Legal Assistant to the Commissioners under the

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and Secretary to the Statistical and Social Inquiry of 1902. He was appointed CB in the

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and became a

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in 1909. His works included 'Local and Centralised Government in Ireland' (1888) and 'Ireland since the Famine' (1902). He also published editions of poetry including works of

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and

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.A Dictionary of Irish History, D.J.Hickey & J.E.Doherty, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1980. Pp. page 21

Works

* ''The Law Of Franchise And Registration In Ireland'' * ''Report On The Condition Of Peasant Purchasers In Ireland'' * ''Local And Centralised Government In Ireland'', (1888) * ''Ireland Since The Famine'', (1902) * ''The Slavs Of The War Zone'', (1916) *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, William Frederick 1857 births 1917 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Irish writers Lawyers from County Limerick Members of the Privy Council of Ireland