William Frederick Bailey CB PC (Ire) (9 February 1857 – 16 April 1917), was an Irish lawyer and writer.
He practised on the Munster Circuit and was Barrington lecturer in Political Economy TCD and Extern in English for the Intermediate Education Board.
[citation needed][1] Bailey was one of the Secretaries to the Royal Commission on Irish Published Works (1880), Legal Assistant to the Commissioners under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 and Secretary to the Statistical and Social Inquiry of 1902.
[citation needed] His works included 'Local and Centralised Government in Ireland' (1888) and 'Ireland since the Famine' (1902).
He also published editions of poetry including works of Gray and Coleridge.