Mark David Bailey, FRHistS (born 21 November 1960) is a British academic, headteacher and former rugby union player.
In 2019, he delivered the James Ford Lectures in British History at Oxford University,[1] which were later published as a book, After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England.
He left academia in 1999 to become headmaster of Leeds Grammar School before returning in 2010 when he was appointed Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
He left that post after a year to become High Master of St Paul's School, London, while maintaining a visiting professorship at UEA.
[9] He made his international in a 1984 series against South Africa,[10] and later played for England at the 1987 Rugby World Cup,[8] and in the 1990 Five Nations Championship.
[13] In 2010 Bailey left Leeds to spend one term as a visiting fellow in medieval history at All Souls College, Oxford.
In 2011, however, he succeeded George Martin Stephen as high master of St Paul's School, London, a role he held until June 2020.