BAILY, CHARLES. _b._ 10 April 1815; assistant to the City Architect, London; built St. John’s church East Dulwich; restored Barnard’s Inn Hall and Leigh church Kent; F.S.A. 1844; master of the Ironmongers Company 1874–75; author with G. R. French of _Catalogue of the Antiquities and works of art exhibited at Ironmongers hall London in 1861_, _2 vols._ 1869. _d._ Reigate 2 Oct. 1878. BAILY, EDWARD HODGES. _b._ Bristol 10 March 1788; pupil of Flaxman in London 1807–14; student of R.A. 1809, gained silver and gold medals 1809 and 1811, A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1821, retired 1863; executed the bassi-relievi on the south or park side of the Marble Arch 1821; executed sculptures of Apollo 1815, Eve at the fountain 1818, Eve listening to the voice 1841, The Graces seated 1849 and statues of Sir Richard Fletcher and Thomas Telford in Westminster Abbey. _d._ 99 Devonshire road, Holloway 22 May 1867. _Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 123–28; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 57–59 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_. BAILY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Baily of Blandford sq. Marylebone_). _b._ London April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and junior Smith’s prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 29 March 1830; barrister L.I. 10 May 1832, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; Q.C. 11 July 1851; leader in V.C. Kindersley’s Court to 1867; counsel to Univ. of Cam. _d._ Stoney Hills, Esher Surrey 19 June 1877. BAILY, JOHN WALKER. _b._ Kent road, London 9 Jany. 1809; head of firm of Wm. Baily and Sons, ironmongers 71 Gracechurch st.; master of the Ironmongers company 1862–63; member of British Archæological Association 6 Dec. 1865, on the council May 1869; formed an important collection of Romano-British and mediæval remains found in London 1862–72, this collection was purchased by Corporation of London 1881; his collection of arms and armour was bought by Baron de Cosson of Chertsey 1881. _d._ 4 March 1873. _Journal of British Archæological Association xxx_, 349–51 (1874). BAIN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Thurso 1810; a journeyman clockmaker in London 1837; made electrical experiments on the Serpentine; invented electrical clocks, patented 11 Jany. 1841 and exhibited at Royal Polytechnic 28 March 1841; constructed the earth battery 1843; patented apparatus for registering progress of ships 1844, and electro-chemical telegraph 1846; invented automatic method of transmitting signals; devised electrical methods of playing keyed instruments at a distance. _d._ in the Home for incurables Kirkintilloch near Glasgow 2 Jany. 1877. _J. Finlaison’s An account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to the useful arts by Mr. Alexander Bain_ 1843.