David Roy Shackleton Bailey (1917–2005), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a prodigious scholar, a towering figure in textual criticism and the editing and translating of Latin literature, and a brilliant student of Roman Republican history, prosopography, and society. His work amounts to some fifty volumes and more than 200 articles and reviews. Shackleton's own prose style, whether in translations of Cicero, justifying an emendation, or just in correspondence is a delight to read, and frequently quotable. Born in Lancaster on December 10, 1917 to Rosamund Maude Giles and John Henry, he...

David Roy Shackleton Bailey (1917–2005), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a prodigious scholar, a towering figure in textual criticism and the editing and translating of Latin literature, and a brilliant student of Roman Republican history, prosopography, and society. His work amounts to some fifty volumes and more than 200 articles and reviews. Shackleton's own prose style, whether in translations of Cicero, justifying an emendation, or just in correspondence is a delight to read, and frequently quotable. Born in Lancaster on December 10, 1917 to Rosamund Maude Giles and John Henry, he had always been attracted to the poet Horace. However, Shackleton's name is most closely associated with that of Cicero, whose letters in their entirety and speeches selectively he edited, with translation and commentary.