Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
BAILLIE, Sir William, 1 Baronet. b. Edinburgh July 1784; created Baronet by patent dated 14 Nov. 1823. d. Perth 28 Jany. 1854.
BAILLIE-HAMILTON, Charles (2 son of George Baillie-Hamilton, M.P. of Mellerstain, Berwickshire 1763–1841). b. Mellerstain 3 Nov. 1804; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1830; advocate depute 1844 to 1846 and 1852; sheriff of Stirlingshire 2 March 1853; solicitor general for Scotland 17 March 1858; Lord advocate for Scotland 10 July 1858; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 5 July 1859; M.P. for Linlithgowshire 7 Feb. 1859 to 15 April 1859; a judge of Court of Session 15 April 1859 to April 1874; assumed courtesy title of Lord Jerviswood 1859; assessor of Univ. of St. Andrew’s 1861; a lord of justiciary 17 June 1862 to April 1874. d. Dryburgh house, St. Boswell’s 23 July 1879.
BAILLIE-HAMILTON, Charles John. b. 4 Jany. 1800; M.P. for Aylesbury 31 July 1839 to 23 July 1847. d. Ronco near Genoa 25 Aug. 1865.
BAILLIÈRE, Hippolyte. Came to London about 1827; opened first shop in London for sale of French medical works at 219 Regent st. 1830; collected books for royal college of surgeons; publisher. d. 219 Regent st. 11 May 1867 aged 58.
BAILY, Charles. b. 10 April 1815; assistant to the City Architect, London; built St. John’s church East Dulwich; restored Barnard’s Inn Hall and Leigh church Kent; F.S.A. 1844; master of the Ironmongers Company 1874–75; author with G. R. French of Catalogue of the Antiquities and works of art exhibited at Ironmongers hall London in 1861, 2 vols. 1869. d. Reigate 2 Oct. 1878.
BAILY, Edward Hodges. b. Bristol 10 March 1788; pupil of Flaxman in London 1807–14; student of R.A. 1809, gained silver and gold medals 1809 and 1811, A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1821, retired 1863; executed the bassi-relievi on the south or park side of the Marble Arch 1821; executed sculptures of Apollo 1815, Eve at the fountain 1818, Eve listening to the voice 1841, The Graces seated 1849 and statues of Sir Richard Fletcher and Thomas Telford in Westminster Abbey. d. 99 Devonshire road, Holloway 22 May 1867. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 123–28; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 57–59 (1862); Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities (1859), portrait.
BAILY, John (eld. son of John Baily of Blandford sq. Marylebone). b. London April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and junior Smith’s prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 29 March 1830; barrister L.I. 10 May 1832, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; Q.C. 11 July 1851; leader in V.C. Kindersley’s Court to 1867; counsel to Univ. of Cam. d. Stoney Hills, Esher Surrey 19 June 1877.
BAILY, John Walker. b. Kent road, London 9 Jany. 1809; head of firm of Wm. Baily and Sons, ironmongers 71 Gracechurch st.; master of the Ironmongers company 1862–63; member of British Archæological Association 6 Dec. 1865, on the council May 1869; formed an important collection of Romano-British and mediæval remains found in London 1862–72, this collection was purchased by Corporation of London 1881; his collection of arms and armour was bought by Baron de Cosson of Chertsey 1881. d. 4 March 1873. Journal of British Archæological Association xxx, 349–51 (1874).
BAIN, Alexander. b. Thurso 1810; a journeyman clockmaker in London 1837; made electrical experiments on the Serpentine; invented electrical clocks, patented 11 Jany. 1841 and exhibited at Royal Polytechnic 28 March 1841; constructed the earth battery 1843; patented apparatus for registering progress of ships 1844, and electro-chemical telegraph 1846; invented automatic method of transmitting signals; devised electrical methods of playing keyed instruments at a distance. d. in the Home for incurables Kirkintilloch near Glasgow 2 Jany. 1877. J. Finlaison’s An account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to the useful arts by Mr. Alexander Bain 1843.
BAIN, Donald. b. Fordyce, Banffshire; author of The patriot or Wallace, a historical tragedy 1806; Olden times, a comedy 1841, 2 ed. 1845. d. April 1865.
BAIN, Edwin Sandys (eld. son of Lieut. Col. William Bain of Livelands near Stirling). b. 1804; barrister M.T. 19 June 1829; went northern circuit; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1845. d. Livelands 30 Dec. 1874.
BAIN, Henderson. Entered navy 4 Sep. 1793; captain 6 April 1813; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Esher, Surrey 18 Jany. 1862 aged 86.
BAIN, James. A bookseller at the Mews Gate, Charing Cross, London 1819; at 1 Haymarket 1831 to death, d. Highgate 10 Dec. 1866 aged 72.
BAIN, Sir William. b. Culross, Perthshire 1771; Master R.N. 1811; commanded steamers for general steam navigation company; harbour master of Granton on the Firth of Forth 10 years; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 20 March 1844; author of An essay on the variation of the compass 1817. d. The Grange, Romford 11 Sep. 1853.
BAINBRIDGE, Edward Thomas. b. 1798; a banker in London; M.P. for Taunton 6 Aug. 1830 to Feb. 1842. d. 30 Medina villas Brighton 30 Sep. 1872.
BAINBRIDGE, John Nathan. Studied at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1820, F.R.C.S. 1852, L.S.A. 1821; bought a practice in St. Martin’s lane 1824; medical officer of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields workhouse 1835; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1842; prescribed for 1669 cases with only 27 deaths during prevalence of cholera 1849 for which, Board of Guardians gave him £200; surgeon to London Friendly Institution. d. 86 St. Martin’s lane 16 April 1863 aged 63. Medical Circular i 131, 169 (1852) portrait.
BAINBRIDGE, William (only son of Wm. Bainbridge of Alston, Northumberland, solicitor). Barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1838; author of A treatise on the law of mines and minerals 1841, 4 ed. 1878; Lionel Merval a novel [anon.] 3 vols. 1866. d. Cliffe house, Cullercoats 13 Dec. 1869 aged about 60.
BAINBRIGGE, John Hankey (2 son of Philip Bainbrigge of Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1756–99). b. 1791; ensign 20 foot 25 March 1808; lieut. 9 March 1809 to 25 Dec. 1814; town major Guernsey 29 Nov. 1839 to 30 May 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; d. Robais manor, Guernsey 15 March 1881.
BAINBRIGGE, Sir Philip (brother of the preceding). b. London 1786; entered navy 1799; ensign 20 foot 30 June 1800; permanent assistant quartermaster general 15 Oct. 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy quartermaster general Ireland 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the forces in Ceylon 1852–54; col. of 26 foot 31 March 1854 to death; general 24 Aug. 1861; granted service reward 15 Nov. 1848; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; invented a protracting pocket sextant 1809. d. St. Margaret’s Litchfield, Hants 20 Dec. 1862. G.M. xiv. 236–37 (1863); Annual Register (1850) 323–31.
BAINES, Rev. Edward. b. Cainham vicarage, Shropshire 1 Aug. 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury head præpositor; at Christ’s coll. Cam., Bell Univ. scholar, and Browne medallist for Latin and Greek epigrams 1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow classical lecturer and tutor of his college; R. of Clipston 1840–43; R. of Bluntisham, Hants 1843–59; V. of Yalding, Kent 1859 to death; author of First form Latin grammar 1855; Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont 1855. d. San Remo 20 April 1882. Sermons by the late Rev. Edward Baines edited with memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D. 1883.
BAINES, Rev. John. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843; V. of Little Marlow, Bucks 1859 to death; author of Tales of the Empire 1851; Life of Archbishop Laud 1855; Twenty sermons 1857; Hints for harvest services 1866. d. 63 Abingdon villas Kensington, London 20 May 1880 aged 58.
BAINES, Matthew Talbot (eld. child of Edward Baines 1774–1848, M.P. for Leeds). b. Leeds 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Richmond gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam. scholar, B.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825, bencher 1841, reader 1854, treasurer 1855; recorder of Hull 1837–47; Q.C. 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–1852 and for Leeds 1852–1859; pres. of Poor law board 1 Jany. 1849 to 2 March 1852 and 1 Jany. 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; P.C. 30 July 1849; mem. of committee of council on education 10 March 1855; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet 7 Dec. 1855 to 26 Feb. 1858. d. 13 Queen’s square, Westminster 22 Jany. 1860. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 482–86; Illust. News of the World 24 Nov. 1860, portrait.
Note.—He was the first dissenter admitted to a seat in the Cabinet.
BAINES, Thomas. b. Kings Lynn 1822; went to Cape Colony 1842; painted pictures and taught drawing; went through Kafir wars 1846–54; explored North West Australia under Augustus Gregory 1855–56; artist and store keeper to the Livingstone Zambesi Expedition 1858, his series of pictures of scenes on the Zambesi has been exhibited at the Crystal palace, Dublin exhibition and Alexandra palace; lectured in England 1864–68; F.R.G.S. 1857; author of Explorations in South Western Africa 1864. d. D’ Urban, Port Natal 8 April 1875. The gold regions of South Eastern Africa, by the late Thomas Baines 1877, portrait; Illust. News of the World i, 64 (1858), portrait.
BAINES, Thomas (3 son of Edward Baines 1774–1848 M.P. for Leeds). b. Leeds 1806; edited Liverpool Times 1829–59; a parliamentary agent in London 1859; author of History of commerce and town of Liverpool 1852; Lancashire and Cheshire past and present 1867; Yorkshire past and present 1875. d. Seaforth hall near Liverpool 31 Oct. 1881.
BAIRD, Andrew Wood. b. Colchester; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1823; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1821, M.R.C.P. 1827; a phys. at Ipswich 1824–52, at Dover 1852 to death; phys. to Dover hospital. d. 7 Camden Crescent, Dover 10 Jany. 1882.
BAIRD, Sir David, 2 Baronet. b. 1795; succeeded 18 Aug. 1829. d. 9 Jany. 1852.
BAIRD, Francis (2 son of Charles Baird, founder of the ‘Baird Works’ at St. Petersburg who d. 10 Dec. 1843 in his 77 year). b. 16 Feb. 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; joined his father’s Works 1819; sole proprietor 1843 to death; M.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1823; executed the 4 bas-reliefs, eagles and candelabra, and colossal figure of the angel on the Alexander column in the Winter Palace St. Petersburg, also the St. Nicholas bridge, first permanent bridge across the Neva. d. St. Petersburg 25 March 1864; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 428 (1870).
BAIRD, James (4 son of Alexander Baird of Kirkwood, Lanarkshire farmer 1765–1833). b. Kirkwood 5 Dec. 1802; an ironmaster at Gartsherrie works near Airdrie 1829 which became largest iron works in the world except those at Dowlais; largely assisted J. B. Neilson in perfecting his invention of the hot blast; M.P. for Falkirk burghs 1851–57; bought estate of Muirkirk Ayrshire 1863 for £135,000; founded Baird lectures for defence of orthodoxy 1871, and Baird Trust in connection with Church of Scotland at cost of £500,000 July 1873. d. Cambusdoon near Ayr 20 June 1876. Personalty sworn under £1,190,000 Aug. 1876. Practical Mag. i, 241–48 (1873) portrait; Burke’s Vicissitudes of families 2 ed. 1859, pp. 40–46; Graphic xiv, 12 (1876), portrait.
BAIRD, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. James Baird, minister of Swinton, Berwickshire who d. 11 Feb. 1814). b. Manse of Eccles 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Whitsome and Kelso and Univ. of Edin.; founded the Plinian Society at Edin. 1823, which was eventually incorporated with Botanical Society of Edin.; minister of Yetholm near Kelso June 1829 to death; established a school at Yetholm for Gipsies 1843, this was the first ragged school in Scotland; a founder of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club 22 Sep. 1831, pres. 1837; author of Scottish Gipsies Advocate 1839; Account of the parish of Yetholm in the New Statistical account of Scotland iii, 159–76 (1845). d. Yetholm 29 Nov. 1861. Memoir of the late Rev. John Baird by W. Baird M.D. 1862.
BAIRD, Robert. b. 1806; an ironmaster at Glasgow; lord dean of guild Glasgow 1855. d. Cawdor house, Glasgow 7 Aug. 1856.
BAIRD, Thomas. Wrote much in Western Times Exeter newspaper under pseudonym of Nathan Hogg; author of Letters in the Devonshire dialect in verse by Nathan Hogg 1847. d. St. Thomas’s hospital London May 1881.
BAIRD, William (elder brother of James Baird). b. 1796; senior partner in Gartsherrie iron works; M.P. for Falkirk 1841–45; bought estate of Elie, Fifeshire for £145,000. d. Edinburgh 8 March 1864, leaving a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling.
BAIRD, William (younger brother of Rev. John Baird). b. the Manse of Eccles Berwickshire 1803; ed. at Edin. Dublin and Paris; surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1823–33; practised in London 1833–41; assistant in Zoological department of the British Museum Sep. 1841 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; author of The natural history of the British Entomostraca published by Ray Society 1850; Cyclopædia of natural sciences 1858. d. 38 Burlington road, Westbourne park 27 Jany. 1872.
BAIRD, Rev. William. Ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861; V. of St. Barnabas, Homerton 1870 to death; author of Hallowing of our common life, sermons 1867, 3 ed. 1874; Inheritance of our fathers, the book of common prayer 1868; Days that are past, early church history 1870. d. Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 5 Dec. 1875.
BAKER, Anne Elizabeth. b. 16 June 1786; wrote the geological and botanical part of her brother George Baker’s History and antiquities of Northamptonshire; author of Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases 2 vols. 1854. d. Gold st. Northampton 22 April 1861.
BAKER, Anthony St. John. Consul general in the U.S. of America 6 Jany. 1816 to 5 Jany. 1832 when office abolished. d. Mount Calverley lodge, Tunbridge Wells 16 May 1854.
BAKER, B. B. Director of the college at Corfu; professor of English literature in the Ionian University. d. Malta 20 Feb. 1868.
BAKER, Rev. David Bristow. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; Inc. of Claygate, Surrey 1841–52; author of A treatise on the nature of doubt in religious questions [by D.B.B.] 1831; Discourses and Sacramental addresses to a village congregation 1832. d. Parliament st. Westminster 24 July 1852 aged 49.
BAKER, D. S. Deaf and dumb heraldic artist; drew for many years the arms for the obituary notices in the Illustrated London News; painted heraldic paintings on panels and doors of state carriage of Lord Mayor of London. d. 1 Sep. 1877 aged 53.
BAKER, Sir Edward Baker, 2 Baronet. b. Dublin 4 Nov. 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 4 March 1825. d. 51 Upper Brook st. London 29 March 1877.
BAKER, Rev. Franklin. b. Birmingham 1801; M.A. Univ. of Glasgow; minister of Presbyterian chapel Bolton 14 Dec. 1823; ordained 23 Sep. 1824; author of The rise and progress of Nonconformity in Bolton 1854. d. Birmingham 25 May 1867.
BAKER, George. b. Northampton; mayor 1837; issued proposals for a history of Northamptonshire 1815; published the first part 1822, the second 1826, the third completing the first volume 1830, the fourth part 1836 and about one third of the fifth part 1841, the manuscripts were eventually purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps. d. May Fair, Northampton 12 Oct. 1851 aged 70. G.M. xxxvi, 551–52, 629 (1851).
BAKER, George. b. 8 Jany. 1794; cornet 16 light dragoons 6 July 1809; captain 19 Oct. 1820 to 18 July 1826, when placed on h.p.; English comr. for defining boundary frontier between Turkey and Greece 1830; F.R.G.S. 1830. d. Grosvenor place, Bath 22 Dec. 1859. Journal of Royal Geographical society xxx, c-cii (1860).
BAKER, George. b. Cobham near Gravesend 31 May 1838; a bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London 1862–64; started the United north and south of England Eleven 1866, sec. to that body which soon became extinct; kept a cricket and newspaper shop at Stratford, Essex about 1864 to death; a left handed bowler and batsman. d. Lydd, Kent 2 June 1870.
BAKER, Sir Henry Loraine, 2 Baronet. b. Nancy in Lorraine 3 Jany. 1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; succeeded as 2 Bart. 4 Feb. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Dunstable house, Richmond 2 Nov. 1859.
BAKER, Rev. Sir Henry Williams, 3 Baronet (elder son of the preceding). b. London 27 May 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1854; C. of Great Horkesley Essex 1842–51; V. of Monkland, Hereford 1851 to death; originated the most popular hymn book ever compiled, Hymns ancient and modern 1860, of which 20 million copies have been sold, author of several of these hymns. d. Horkesley house, Monkland 12 Feb. 1877.
BAKER, Rev. James. b. Lincoln; ed. at Winchester; fellow of New college Ox. 1807–18, B.A. 1811. M.A. 1815; chancellor of diocese of Durham 1818 to death; R. of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon 1825 to death. d. Nuneham Courtenay 6 Sep. 1854 aged 66.
BAKER, James. b. York 4 Oct. 1851; the first editor of a periodical entitled Bachelors’ Papers Liverpool 1870; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1872; M.B. 1876; resident phys. Royal infirmary Edin. 1876; pres. of Royal medical society. d. Royal infirmary Edin. 17 April 1877. The annual monitor for 1878 pp. 15–29.
BAKER, James Vashon. b. 1798; entered navy 1811; captain 10 July 1843; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. Neen-Sollars rectory, Shropshire 14 Oct. 1875.
BAKER, John. One of the pioneers of South Australia; one of its foremost public men; member of Legislative Council. d. Morialta, South Australia 18 May 1872 aged 59.
BAKER, Joseph. b. Great new st. Fetter lane London about 1766; map engraver; employed by the Board of Ordnance; a liveryman of company of stationers 1787, one of the court of assistants 1825, master of the company 1832 and 1833, a stockkeeper for management of business concerns of the company 1840 to death. d. Warren st. Pentonville, London 2 March 1853.
BAKER, Sir Richard (eld. son of John Baker of Cott house, New Totnes, Devon). b. Cott house 1782; army and navy clothier Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by Marquess Wellesley 1833; alderman of Dublin 1838–41. d. Mount Errol, Donnybrook, co. Dublin 1 June 1853.
BAKER, Robert. b. Terling, Essex Nov 1793; a tenant farmer at Writtle; founded Society for protection of agriculture 17 Feb. 1844; author of A lecture on the economy of farming 1852; edited J. S. Bayldon’s Art of valuing rents and tillages 1856. d. 24 Dec. 1859.
BAKER, Robert. Member of medical profession; sub-inspector of factories 1834; inspector 18 June 1858; C.B. 27 Oct. 1877. d. Leamington 6 Feb. 1880 in 77 year.
BAKER, Rev. Robert George. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Fulham 1834–71; Preb. of St. Paul’s 1846 to death; rural dean 1851–71; author of Account of benefactions and charities of Fulham; The olden characters of Fulham 1847. d. Ivy cottage, Fulham 21 Feb. 1878 in 90 year.
BAKER, Thomas. b. 8 Oct. 1809; landscape painter in Midland counties; known as Baker of Leamington; exhibited at the R.A. 1831. d. 10 Aug. 1869.
BAKER, Thomas (son of a farmer at Old Park, Durham). A civil engineer; invented method of laying down railway curves; laid out Stockton and Darlington railway the first line in the kingdom, opened 27 Sep. 1825; laid out atmospheric line from Dublin to Kingstown, opened 17 Dec. 1834; author of Rudimentary treatise on mensuration 1850; Principles and practice of statics and dynamics 1851; The mathematical theory of the steam engine 1862. d. Charter house hospital London Sep. or Oct. 1871.
BAKER, Thomas Eld. b. Margate 1791; M.R.C.S. 1813; surgeon Bengal army 1814 to 23 Aug. 1838 when he retired; treasurer of Royal humane society; author of The art of preserving health in India 1829; An appeal to the common sense of the people of England in favour of anatomy 1832. d. 76 Porchester Terrace, London 23 July 1868.
BAKER, Thomas Palmer. Chief engineer Chatham dockyard 11 Nov. 1856 to Dec. 1868 when office abolished; chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 July 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 170, Lewisham high road, Newcross 6 Oct. 1876 in 69 year.
BAKER, William (son of Mr. Baker of Eastover, Bridgwater, butcher). b. Eastover 3 March 1787; apprenticed to Mr. Tuthill of Bridgwater, currier Sep. 1800; worked in London and Glasgow 1807–1809; a currier in Fore st. Bridgwater 1809; alderman; F.G.S. Nov. 1842; sec. to Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society. d. Bridgwater 8 Oct. 1853. A brief memoir of Wm. Baker by John Bowen 1854.
BAKER, William (elder son of George Wingfield of Cotham who d. 1774). Barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1797, bencher 1818 to death; M.P. for Bodmin 1 Nov. 1806 to 29 April 1807; chief justice of Brecon circuit; a comr. of bankrupts; K.C. 1818; master in Chancery 19 March 1819 to March 1849; assumed surname of Baker in lieu of Wingfield by R.L. 29 Dec. 1849. d. Sherborne castle, Dorset 21 March 1858.
BAKER, William. b. 1784; an attorney in London; coroner for east division of Middlesex; author of A practical compendium of the recent statutes, cases and decisions affecting the office of coroner 1851. d. 12 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park 22 Feb. 1859.
BAKER, William. b. 19 May 1817; articled to G. W. Buck, C.E. 1834–39; engineer upon southern division of London and north western railway 1852–59, chief engineer of that line Oct. 1859–1878, during which time he carried out a great extent of railway works; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1848; member of council 1877 to death. d. 7 March 1878. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lv, 315–17 (1879).
BAKER, Sir William Erskine (son of Joseph Baker, capt. R.N.) b. Leith 1808; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826, col. commandant 10 March 1857; military sec. at India office 1858; member of council of India 1861–1875; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 29 Nov. 1878; K.C.B. 1 Feb. 1870. (m. 1837 Frances Gertrude 3 dau. of major general A. Duncan). d. the Castle, Banwell 16 Dec. 1881.
BAKER, Rev. William Richard. b. Waltham abbey, Essex 3 Sep. 1798; agent of Home missionary society at Ramsey, Isle of Man 1822–28; minister of independent chapel at Shepton Mallet, Somerset 1828–38; sec. of New British and Foreign Temperance Society 1838–41; minister of Portland chapel St. John’s Wood, London 1841–51; a founder of United Kingdom temperance and general provident Institution 1840, resident director 1852; author of The curse of Britain 1838; The idolatry of Britain 1840; Our state church 1850; Anti-mysticism 1855. d. Down house near Sutton, Surrey 28 Sep. 1861. Life of the late Rev. W. R. Baker, edited by his sister Mrs. E. L. Edmunds 1865.
BALD, Robert. b. Culross, Perthshire 1776; engaged in the Mar collieries; a mining engineer at Edin. about 1820; much employed in Scotland, England and Wales; reported on coalfields of Sweden for the Swedish government; F.R.S. Edin. 1817; author of A general view of the coal trade of Scotland 1812; of the article Mine in the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and of many papers. d. Alloa 28 Dec. 1861.
BALD, William, b. Burnt Island, Fifeshire; a civil engineer 1803; made a territorial survey of co. Mayo about 1810, his map on a scale of 4 inches to a mile was one of the finest maps ever constructed; a draftsman at the Admiralty; resident engineer to trustees of the river Clyde 1839–45; examined the river Seine 1845. d. 1857. Quarterly journal of Geological Society xiv, 42–43 (1858).
BALDERS, Charles William Morely (eld. son of Charles Morely Balders of West Barsham, Norfolk). b. Sunderland 4 Feb. 1804; cornet 3 dragoons 10 Nov. 1825, and major 1845–48; major 5 dragoon guards 1848–54; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Jany. 1858 to 31 Aug. 1860; col. 17 lancers 4 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 28 Oct. 1869; C.B. 24 May 1847. d. 11 Adelaide crescent, Brighton 21 Sep. 1875.
BALDERSON, Abraham Thomas. b. 1804; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1826; assistant to Sir Astley Cooper 1825–41; examiner of lunatics, parish of St. James, Westminster. d. 37 Woburn sq. London 3 Feb. 1872
BALDOCK, Edward Holmes. b. 1812; M.P. for Shrewsbury 30 July 1847 to 21 March 1857. d. 8 Grosvenor place, London 15 Aug. 1875 from effect of walking through a plate glass window in Alexander Collie’s house, 12 Kensington palace gardens.
BALDOCK, Robert (youngest son of Thomas Baldock of Burwash Sussex, surgeon). b. Burwash July 1789; bookseller at 85 High Holborn, London 1814 to death. d. 85 High Holborn 5 Nov. 1861.
BALDOCK, Thomas. Midshipman R.N. 25 Oct. 1806; superintended packet service at Dover 19 Aug. 1846 to Sep. 1852; captain on h.p. 9 Jany. 1854; retired R.A. 10 Sep. 1869; K.T.S. 1 May 1837. d. Hastings 11 March 1871 aged 81.
BALDWIN, Augustus. Entered navy May 1794: captain 1 Jany. 1817; retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. d. Toronto 5 Jany. 1866.
BALDWIN, Charles (3 son of Henry Baldwin of London, printer, who founded the St. James’s Chronicle 1761). b. 1774; sole proprietor of St. James’s Chronicle and Morning Herald; founded the Standard evening paper 21 May 1827, published in it the news of the surrender of Varna 11 Oct. 1828 a fortnight before arrival of the Government couriers; contested Lambeth Aug. 1837 and July 1841; master of the Stationers’ company 1842 and 1843; retired from business 1844; probably oldest volunteer in the kingdom. d. 27 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Feb. 1869 in 95 year. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 313–15 (1869).
BALDWIN, Charles Barry (eld. son of Charles Baldwin, lieut. col. of Kings county militia). b. 1789; barrister I.T. 26 Nov 1824; secretary to comrs. for claims on France, sole comr. to 1830; M.P. for Totnes 1830–32 and 1839–52. d. Paris 13 April 1859.
BALDWIN, Connell James (son of James Baldwin of Clohina, co. Cork). b. Clohina; ensign 87 foot 23 July 1807; captain 50 foot 10 Feb. 1820 to 22 Feb. 1827 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula for which he received a medal and 10 clasps; raised a regiment at Cork for Emperor of Brazil but brought the men back again on being ordered to the interior of Brazil as settlers; went to Canada about 1828; raised a regiment of Militia for defence of the frontier in troubles of 1837–38. d. Toronto 14 Dec. 1861. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 733–35.
BALDWIN, Edward. b. Waterford; a pugilist 6 feet 5 inches in height; beaten by Andrew Marsden 21 Oct. 1863; beat George Iles 19 Feb. 1866; beat A. Marsden 25 Sep. 1866; matched to fight Joseph Wormald for Championship 29 April 1867 but forfeited his stakes; matched to fight James Mace for Championship 15 Oct. 1867 but Mace was arrested; fought J. Wormald at Lynnfield Massachusetts 1868 for Championship and 2,500 dollars when police interfered, he was awarded the stakes as Wormald declined to renew the fight; shot dead in the United States Sep. 1875. Modern Boxing by Pendragon (1879) 83–89; Illust. Sporting News v, 97 (1866), portrait.
BALDWIN, George Walter. Major 31 foot 1863–64; major 20 foot 1864 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura, about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i, 15–54. (1871); F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i, 485–98 (1874), ii, 1–5 (1875).
BALDWIN, Henry. Called to bar in Ireland 1826; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; law adviser of the Castle during state trials 1848–49; comr. of insolvent court 1850 to death. d. Dublin 24 May 1854.
BALDWIN, Martin. b. Coalbrookdale Shropshire 22 Nov. 1788; an engine factor at Bradley near Bilston 1809; carried on the Lower Bovereux colliery; invented many improvements in the construction of engines and machinery. d. Newbridge crescent, Wolverhampton 16 Feb. 1872.
BALDWIN, Robert (only son of Benjamin Baldwin of Faringdon, Berkshire surgeon). Printer and bookseller in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1806–10, and in Paternoster row 1810; united his business with that of another firm under name of Baldwin, Cradock and Joy; started the London Magazine Jany. 1820, in opposition to Blackwood’s Mag. transferred it to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey 1821; became insolvent; a stock keeper of Company of Stationers 1834 to death. d. Cumberland place, Westbourne grove north, 29 Jany. 1858 aged 78.
BALDWIN, Robert (son of Wm. Warren Baldwin of Toronto, lawyer who d. 8 Jany. 1844). b. Toronto 1804; partner with his father 1825–48; member of Assembly of Upper Canada 1829; executive councillor 18 Feb. 1836 for short time; solicitor general 1840; attorney general for Upper Canada Sep. 1842 and Feb. 1848 to July 1851; C.B. 23 June 1854. d. Spadina near Toronto 9 Dec. 1858. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 397–405.
BALDY, John Patey. M.R.C.S. 1814; private teacher of anatomy and surgery. d. 23 Pembroke st. Devonport 6 Sep. 1861 aged 67.
BALE, Charles Sackville. Made a splendid collection of pictures at 71 Cambridge terrace, Edgeware road, London. d. 71 Cambridge terrace 28 Nov. 1880 aged 89. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 329–32 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 116–21.
BALFE, Michael William (only son of Balfe of Dublin, violinist 1783–1823). b. 10 Pitt st. Dublin 15 May 1808; played the violin at a concert in Royal Exchange, Dublin, May 1816; first violinist in Drury Lane orchestra 1823; chief baritone at Italian opera, Paris 1827–29; sang in Italy 1829–35; lessee of English opera house Lyceum 9 March 1841 to 13 May 1841; conductor at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 March 1846 to 1852 when house closed; went to St. Petersburg 1852; purchased Rowney Abbey, Ware, Herts and turned gentleman farmer 1864; chevalier of Legion of honour 22 March 1870; composed Rivals 1829, Siege of Rochelle 1835, Bohemian Girl 1843 (produced at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1843, performed in almost every European country), Rose of Castille 1857, Puritan’s daughter 1861, Il Talismano produced at Her Majesty’s theatre 1874; arranged Moore’s Irish Melodies as duets and quartets. (m. Lina Rozer a Hungarian prima donna). d. Rowney Abbey 20 Oct. 1870. Balfe, his life and work by W. A. Barrett 1882, portrait; A memoir of M. W. Balfe by C. L. Kenny 1875; Illust. Review v, 671–77, portrait; Recollections of J. R. Planché i, 241 (1872), portrait by Thackeray.
Note.—A statue of him was placed in the vestibule of Drury Lane theatre 24 Sep. 1874, his memorial window in St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, was uncovered 14 April 1879, and his memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey was unveiled 20 Oct. 1882.
BALFE, Victoire (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Rue de la Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of La Sonnambula; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St. Petersburg 1857–59. (m. (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her petition 20 Nov. 1863, she m. (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and d. Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) bur. Burgos cathedral. Illust. news of the world iii, 328 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxxi, 116 (1857), portrait, lviii, 115 (1871).