Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
BAIGRIE, ROBERT (_son of John Baigrie of Fearn, Rossshire_). Entered
Bombay army 3 Feb. 1848; major staff corps 3 Feb. 1868;
quartermaster general Bombay army to 1874; commandant 28 N.I. 20
May 1876 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Poona 25 Sep. 1877.
_I.L.N. lxxi_, 481, 482 (1877), _portrait_.
BAIKIE, WILLIAM BALFOUR (_eld son of John Baikie captain R.N._).
_b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 27 Aug. 1825; ed. at Kirkwall gr. sch. and
Univ. of Edin., M.D.; assistant surgeon R.N. 1848; surgeon and
naturalist to expedition to the river Niger 1854; commanded
expedition to river Niger 1 April 1857; author of _Narrative of an
exploring voyage up the river Niger_ 1856. _d._ at house of
Charles Heddle, Sierra Leone 12 Dec. 1864. _Journal of royal
geographical society xxxv_, 123 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 88 (1865),
_portrait_.
BAILES, WILLIAM HAIGH. _b._ 1821; solicitor at Boston 1843 to death;
member of Boston town council 1863–72, alderman 1872, mayor 1873.
_d._ 14 April 1885.
BAILEY, REV. BENJAMIN. V. of Dallington, Northampton 1819; senior
chaplain in Ceylon; archdeacon of Colombo 1852 to death. _d._
Nottingham place, Marylebone 25 June 1853 aged 62.
BAILEY, CRAWSHAY. _b._ Wenham, Suffolk 24 Oct. 1789; an ironmaster
in South Wales; sheriff of Brecon 1835, of Monmouth 1850; took out
a patent for railway rails 1843; M.P. for Monmouth 1852–68. _d._
Llanfoist near Abergavenny 9 Jany. 1872.
BAILEY, FANNY (_dau. of John Mitchell of Ferring, Sussex, farmer_).
_b._ Ferring 7 Aug. 1777. _d._ Christchurch schools, Worthing 6
April 1881 aged 103 years and 8 months. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 440
(1881), _portrait_; _N. and Q. 5 S. viii_, 265 (1877), _xii_, 407
(1879), 6 _S. iii_, 485 (1881).
BAILEY, JAMES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823; head
master of Perse’s Free school Cam.; granted a Civil list pension
of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; edited _Forcellini’s Latin dictionary 2
vols._ 1826; author of _Comicorum Græcorum fragmenta_ 1840. _d._
London 13 Feb. 1864.
BAILEY, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Joseph Bailey of
Wakefield 1747–1813_). _b._ Great Wenham priory, Suffolk 21 Jany.
1783; an ironmaster in Brecknock and Monmouth; chairman of
Birkenhead docks company; sheriff of Monmouth 1823; M.P. for
Worcester 1835–47 and for Brecknockshire 1847 to death; created a
baronet 5 July 1852. _d._ Glanusk park, Brecknockshire 20 Nov.
1858.
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