PORTLAND — Philip H. Bailey, 83, a resident of Depot Street, Livermore Falls, died Monday, June 11, at Maine Medical Center, after a short illness.

He was born in Livermore Falls, Oct. 10, 1928, the son of Bernal and Rossie Hinds Bailey. He was a graduate of Livermore Falls High School, Class of 1947. He furthered his education at Colby College and Columbia University.

He served in the Army from 1954 to 1956 and was stationed in Germany. He worked as a professor of literature at Brown University and then Rhode Island School of Design, where he was their Shakespeare expert and had invented a course on children’s literature. In his third year at RISD, the yearbook was dedicated to him. He retired in the early 1990s to the family homestead in Livermore Falls.

Philip had a great love for literature and the arts as well as a passion for cooking. He enjoyed spending summers at his cottage on Androscoggin Lake in Leeds, entertaining family and friends.

He is survived by his sisters-in-law, Rita W. Bailey of Livermore Falls and Barbara Bailey of Acton, Mass.; as well as nephews, nieces and cousins.

He was predeceased by twin brother, Alan M. Bailey of Livermore Falls in 1995; and older brother, George Stuart Bailey of Acton, Mass., in 2011.

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