BAILLIE, HUGH DUNCAN. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Rye 1830–31 and for Honiton 1835–47; Lieutenant and sheriff principal of Rossshire 22 March 1843 to death. _d._ 65 Rutland gate, London 21 June 1866. BAILLIE, JOANNA (_youngest child of Rev. James Baillie, minister of Bothwell, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Manse of Bothwell 11 Sep. 1762; lived with her only brother Matthew Baillie in London 1783–91; lived at Hampstead 1802 to death; published anonymously _A Series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind_, _3 vols._ 1798–1812, of these plays _De Montford, a tragedy on hatred_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1800 and ran 11 nights, _The Election, a comedy_ was produced as an opera at English Opera house June 1817, _Constantine Paleologus, a tragedy_ produced at Surrey theatre as a melodrama under title of _Constantine and Valeria The Family legend, a tragedy_ produced at T.R. Edin. 1810 and at Drury Lane 29 May 1815, _The Separation_ and _Henriquez_ have been also acted; author of _Miscellaneous Plays_, _3 vols._ 1836. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 23 Feb. 1851. _The songstresses of Scotland by Tytler & Watson ii_, 180–334 (1871); _Chambers Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen i_, 53 (1868), _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets ii_, 248–56 (1847); _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 221–26 (1883); _The living and the dead by a country curate, i.e. Rev. Erskine Neale_ (1827) 177–91. BAILLIE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh July 1784; created Baronet by patent dated 14 Nov. 1823. _d._ Perth 28 Jany. 1854. BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES (_2 son of George Baillie-Hamilton, M.P. of Mellerstain, Berwickshire 1763–1841_). _b._ Mellerstain 3 Nov. 1804; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1830; advocate depute 1844 to 1846 and 1852; sheriff of Stirlingshire 2 March 1853; solicitor general for Scotland 17 March 1858; Lord advocate for Scotland 10 July 1858; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 5 July 1859; M.P. for Linlithgowshire 7 Feb. 1859 to 15 April 1859; a judge of Court of Session 15 April 1859 to April 1874; assumed courtesy title of Lord Jerviswood 1859; assessor of Univ. of St. Andrew’s 1861; a lord of justiciary 17 June 1862 to April 1874. _d._ Dryburgh house, St. Boswell’s 23 July 1879. BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 4 Jany. 1800; M.P. for Aylesbury 31 July 1839 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ronco near Genoa 25 Aug. 1865. BAILLIÈRE, HIPPOLYTE. Came to London about 1827; opened first shop in London for sale of French medical works at 219 Regent st. 1830; collected books for royal college of surgeons; publisher. _d._ 219 Regent st. 11 May 1867 aged 58.