Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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.