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Benjamin Bailey (missionary)
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Benjamin Bailey (Dewsbury, November 1791 - 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.
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Born | Benjamin Bailey (1791-11-00)November 1791 |
Died | 3 April 1871(1871-04-03) (aged 79) Sheinton, Shropshire, England |
Known for | Translating Bible into Malayalam language, Standardized the Malayalam types, Compiled the first Dictionary in Malayalam, first principal of CMS College, Kottayam[1] |
Spouse | Elizabeth Ella |
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