NOTE.—While connected with the Independents, he was one of three individuals chosen to take part in a public disputation arranged to be held in Nottingham between the friends of Christianity and Richard Carlisle, the champion of infidelity who _d._ 10 Feb. 1843 aged 52.
BAILHACHE, REV. CLEMENT. _b._ St. Heliers Jersey 11 Dec. 1830; ed. at Stepney college 1851; minister of Baptist chapel, South parade, Leeds 1855; minister at Watford 1859, at Cross st. Islington 1864; association sec. of Baptist mission Oct. 1870; sec. of Baptist missionary society 1876 to death. _d._ 6, Leigh road, Highbury 13 Dec. 1878. _Baptist handbook_ (1879) 296–98.
BAILLIE, ALFRED. _b._ London 22 June 1830; hon. sec. of Marylebone cricket club May 1858 to 12 Feb. 1863. _d._ May or June 1867.
BAILLIE, AGNES (_elder sister of Joanna Baillie_). _b._ 24 Sep. 1760. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 27 April 1861 aged 100 years and 7 months.
BAILLIE, EDWARD. _b._ Gateshead; a glass painter; exhibited at Great Exhibition of 1851 “Shakespeare reading a play to Queen Elizabeth.” _d._ London 21 Sep. 1856 aged 43.
BAILLIE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 1804; ensign 15 Madras N.I. 6 April 1820; lieut. col. of 52 N.I. 9 June 1853, of 14 N.I. 15 Sep. 1855, and of 26 N.I. 1857–64; col. 15 N.I. 9 June 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 92 Westbourne park road, London 3 March 1882.
BAILLIE, HUGH DUNCAN. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Rye 1830–31 and for Honiton 1835–47; Lieutenant and sheriff principal of Rossshire 22 March 1843 to death. _d._ 65 Rutland gate, London 21 June 1866.
BAILLIE, JOANNA (_youngest child of Rev. James Baillie, minister of Bothwell, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Manse of Bothwell 11 Sep. 1762; lived with her only brother Matthew Baillie in London 1783–91; lived at Hampstead 1802 to death; published anonymously _A Series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind_, _3 vols._ 1798–1812, of these plays _De Montford, a tragedy on hatred_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1800 and ran 11 nights, _The Election, a comedy_ was produced as an opera at English Opera house June 1817, _Constantine Paleologus, a tragedy_ produced at Surrey theatre as a melodrama under title of _Constantine and Valeria The Family legend, a tragedy_ produced at T.R. Edin. 1810 and at Drury Lane 29 May 1815, _The Separation_ and _Henriquez_ have been also acted; author of _Miscellaneous Plays_, _3 vols._ 1836. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 23 Feb. 1851. _The songstresses of Scotland by Tytler & Watson ii_, 180–334 (1871); _Chambers Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen i_, 53 (1868), _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets ii_, 248–56 (1847); _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 221–26 (1883); _The living and the dead by a country curate, i.e. Rev. Erskine Neale_ (1827) 177–91.
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.