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.