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).
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792; M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. _d._ Townley hall near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1799; lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co. Louth 1841. _d._ Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.
BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest 21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road, Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850; _Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_.