Frederick Bailey (forester)

Frederick Bailey FRSE FRSGS (11 July 1840 – 21 December 1912) was a British Army officer serving in the Royal Engineers who headed the Indian Imperial Forestry Service, in charge of overseeing the cultivation and export of timber to the British Empire.

In 1871 he joined the Indian Forest Service and became Head of this service and Inspector General of Forests in India, succeeding Hugh Cleghorn in this task.

In 1878 he established the First Indian Forestry School at Dehra Dun and served as its first director.

In 1890 he returned to UK and lectured on a newly created course on Forestry at the University of Edinburgh from 1890 to 1907.

His proposers were James Geikie, Alexander Crum Brown, Sir William Turner and Peter Guthrie Tait From 1895, until his death, he lived at 7 Drummond Place in the New Town of Edinburgh.