# Benjamin Bailey

> Benjamin Bailey 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, 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.

*Translator of the Bible into Malayalam (1791-1871)*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1791
- **Died:** 1871-04-03
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 39.6 / 100
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