BAXTER, EDWARD. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but declined; retired from business about 1834. _d._ 27 July 1856 aged 77.
BAXTER, EDWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export merchant_). _b._ 3 April 1791; partner with his father about 1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the merchant princes of Dundee. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July 1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 368–74.
BAXTER, EVAN BUCHANAN (_son of James Baxter, director of the English school at St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll. Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society, _Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols._ 1872–73; edited _Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica_ _4 ed._ 1874. _d._ 28 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. _Lancet 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 181.
BAXTER, FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY (_younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of Dundee, merchant_). _b._ Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to _Tait’s Magazine_ and other periodicals; edited the _Dundee Advertiser_; author of _Percy Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Broughty Ferry, near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 358–60.
BAXTER, GEORGE (_2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858_). A wood engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836, employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the “Pictorial Album” 1836. _d._ The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867 aged 62.
BAXTER, GEORGE R. WYTHEN. Author of _Modern refinement_ 1834; _Humour and pathos_ 1838; _The book of the Bastiles_ 1841; edited _Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost_ 1839. _d._ Bryn, Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.
BAXTER, JOHN. _b._ Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common nettle; published _Library of practical agriculture_ 1846, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket published as _Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide_; established _Sussex Agricultural Express_ 1837. _d._ Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 283–84, _portrait_.
BAXTER, JOHN BOYD (_son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant_). _b._ 1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee 1825 to death. _d._ Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.
BAXTER, MARY ANN. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000 for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883. _d._ Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to upwards of £283,000.
BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (_eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster, solicitor_). _b._ Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of _The national income_ 1868; _The taxation of the United Kingdom_ 1869; _English parties and conservatism_ 1870; _The national debts of the various states of the world_ 1871. _d._ 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. _Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii_, 259–61 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 547 (1875), _portrait_.
BAXTER, WILLIAM. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of _British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols._ 1834–43. _d._ Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.
BAXTER, WILLIAM RALEIGH. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of _A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry_ 1851; edited _Medical Record_. _d._ Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.
BAYES, CORDELIA (_dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge_). _b._ Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends 1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada 1851–53. (_m._ 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he _d._ 1842). _d._ Stoke Newington, London 11 April 1865. _Annual Monitor for 1866 pp._ 8–34.
BAYLEE, REV. JOSEPH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of _The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin_, _3 ed._ 1838; _Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God_ 1852; _The intermediate state of the blessed dead_ 1864; _Introduction to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols._ 1870; _The Apocalypse with an exegetical commentary_ 1876. _d._ Shepscombe vicarage 7 July 1883 in 76 year.
BAYLEY, CHARLES JOHN. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to 1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 6 July 1873.
BAYLEY, SIR EDWARD CLIVE (_son of Edward Clive Bayley of St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5 times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877. (_m._ 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). _d._ Wilmington lodge, Keymer Sussex 30 April 1884. _Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society_ 1884.
BAYLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR. _b._ Ireland; went to Barbadoes 1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the _Morning Post_ about 1831; started and edited the _National Omnibus_, a penny weekly paper; edited the _Illustrated London News_ May 1842 to 1848; author of _Four years residence in the West Indies_ 1830; _Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3 vols._ 1835; _Tales of the late revolutions_ 1831; issued a series of songs set to music under the title of _The Nosegay_ 1832; wrote many popular songs including _The Newfoundland dog_; author of _New tale of a tub_ 1841; _Comic nursery rhymes_ 1842; _The model of the earth_ 1851. _d._ from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. _Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii_, 197–203 (1855).
BAYLEY, HENRY VINCENT (_eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d. 29 May 1860 aged 78_). _b._ 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862 to death. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.
BAYLEY, JOHN. _b._ Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London 1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler; lived at Mitcham all his life. _d._ Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov. 1874.
BAYLEY, SIR JOHN EDWARD GEORGE, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Dec. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836 to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. _d._ Stanhope lodge, Kensington Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.
BAYLEY, JOHN WHITCOMB (_2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs., farmer_). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834; edited _Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32_, for which he received £2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of _History and antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts_ 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819, F.R.S. 1823. _d._ Paris 25 March 1869.