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{{Short description|British political officer in India (1882–1967)}} | {{Short description|British political officer in India (1882–1967)}} | ||
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He helped [[Frank Kingdon-Ward]] and Lord Cawdor in 1924 when he was a [[Political officer (British Empire)|Political Officer]] in Gangtok, Sikkim. Bailey arranged passports and encouraged them to search the 40 mi unexplored gap of the river to solve the ''riddles of the Tsangpo Gorges''. Kingdon-Ward wrote a book by the same name documenting that expedition. | He helped [[Frank Kingdon-Ward]] and Lord Cawdor in 1924 when he was a [[Political officer (British Empire)|Political Officer]] in Gangtok, Sikkim. Bailey arranged passports and encouraged them to search the 40 mi unexplored gap of the river to solve the ''riddles of the Tsangpo Gorges''. Kingdon-Ward wrote a book by the same name documenting that expedition. | ||
He was among the earliest to import the [[Lhasa Apso]] breed of dog into Britain.<ref>Bailey, Eric (1937) Dogs from the Roof of the World : Many unusual Breeds Found in Tibet the Strange Land That Lies in the Clouds. American Kennel Gazette 25(3) {{cite web |url=http://www.lhasa-apso.org/articles/bailey.htm |title=The AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE |accessdate=2006-12-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108033658/http://www.lhasa-apso.org/articles/bailey.htm |archivedate=8 November | He was among the earliest to import the [[Lhasa Apso]] breed of dog into Britain.<ref>Bailey, Eric (1937) Dogs from the Roof of the World : Many unusual Breeds Found in Tibet the Strange Land That Lies in the Clouds. American Kennel Gazette 25(3) {{cite web |url=http://www.lhasa-apso.org/articles/bailey.htm |title=The AMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE |accessdate=2006-12-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108033658/http://www.lhasa-apso.org/articles/bailey.htm |archivedate=8 November 2006}}</ref> He was in contact with others interested in Central Asia, including [[Richard Meinertzhagen]]. | ||
He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 28 July 1926. | He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 28 July 1926. | ||
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==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
Bailey is commemorated in the scientific names of three species: a Tibetan snake (''[[Thermophis baileyi]]'');<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Bailey, F. M.", p. 14).</ref> a species of mammal, the red goral (''[[Red goral|Naemorhedus baileyi]]'');<ref name=":0">Pocock R. I. (1914) Description of a new species of goral (''Naemorhedus'') shot by Captain F. M. Bailey.</ref> and the renowned Himalayan blue poppy (''[[Meconopsis baileyi]]'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hortophile.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/meconopsis-baileyi-himalayan-blue-poppy/.|title=Meconopsis baileyi – Himalayan Blue Poppy|date=14 June | Bailey is commemorated in the scientific names of three species: a Tibetan snake (''[[Thermophis baileyi]]'');<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Bailey, F. M.", p. 14).</ref> a species of mammal, the red goral (''[[Red goral|Naemorhedus baileyi]]'');<ref name=":0">Pocock R. I. (1914) Description of a new species of goral (''Naemorhedus'') shot by Captain F. M. Bailey.</ref> and the renowned Himalayan blue poppy (''[[Meconopsis baileyi]]'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hortophile.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/meconopsis-baileyi-himalayan-blue-poppy/.|title=Meconopsis baileyi – Himalayan Blue Poppy|date=14 June 2012}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||