Editing Samuel Bailey (section)

{{Short description|British philosopher, economist and writer}}
{{Other people|Sam Bailey}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox philosopher |
region          = Western Philosophy |
era             = [[19th-century philosophy]] |
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name             = Samuel Bailey |
|birth_date      = {{birth date|1791|7|5|df=y}}
|birth_place     = [[Dunstable]], England
|death_date      = {{death date and age|1870|1|18|1791|7|5|df=y}}
|death_place     = [[Sheffield]], England |
school_tradition = [[Utilitarianism]], [[classical liberalism]] |
main_interests   = Economics, [[political philosophy]], [[inductive reasoning|inductive logic]] |
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}}

'''Samuel Bailey''' (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher, economist and writer. He was called the "[[Jeremy Bentham|Bentham]] of [[Hallamshire]]".<ref>Elliott, Ebenezer. ''The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott''. 2 volumes. London: King & Co., 1876. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qldep5fhhuwC&pg=PA127 vol. 1, p. 127].</ref>