Allan Archibald Bailey was born March 22, 1910 in Strathcona, Alberta. He attended the University of Toronto, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1935. He did postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota, earning a Master of Science in Neurology and Psychiatry in 1940. Dr. Bailey married Dr. Mary Marshall in 1938. He served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War Two as a specialist in neuropsychiatry. After the war, he worked in Montreal and then at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was head of the Section of Neurology. He joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1954 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Head of Neurology. He was promoted to full Professor in 1957. Dr. Bailey was President of the Canadian Neurological Society from 1957 to 1958. In 1962, he was promoted to head of the Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine and Chief of the Department of Medicine at University Hospital. Dr. Bailey and his wife helped found the Unitarian Fellowship of Saskatoon. He died on October 3, 1967.