Alongside receiving five honorary doctorates, Bailey gave the Sather Lectures at the University of California in 1932 and was elected a fellow of the British Academy the next year. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1939 for his work as chairman of the Oxford Youth Advisory Committee. He died on 5 December 1957 and was survived by his wife, Gemma (daughter of the historian and bishop Mandell Creighton), who had attended the University of Oxford herself, and produced a history of Lady Margaret Hall in 1923. They had four children. Their third child, Rachel Moss (with her husband the Very Rev. Basil Moss), played an important role in liberalising Church of England views on sexuality; she edited God's Yes to Sexuality (1981).Jill Moss, "Rachel Moss", The Guardian, 16 January 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2021."The Very Rev. Basil Moss", The Times (London), 3 April 2006, p. 50.
