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
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BAINBRIGGE, SIR PHILIP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London
1786; entered navy 1799; ensign 20 foot 30 June 1800; permanent
assistant quartermaster general 15 Oct. 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841;
deputy quartermaster general Ireland 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846;
commanded the forces in Ceylon 1852–54; col. of 26 foot 31 March
1854 to death; general 24 Aug. 1861; granted service reward 15
Nov. 1848; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; invented a
protracting pocket sextant 1809. _d._ St. Margaret’s Litchfield,
Hants 20 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv._ 236–37 (1863); _Annual Register_
(1850) 323–31.
BAINES, REV. EDWARD. _b._ Cainham vicarage, Shropshire 1 Aug. 1801;
ed. at Shrewsbury head præpositor; at Christ’s coll. Cam., Bell
Univ. scholar, and Browne medallist for Latin and Greek epigrams
1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow classical lecturer and tutor of
his college; R. of Clipston 1840–43; R. of Bluntisham, Hants
1843–59; V. of Yalding, Kent 1859 to death; author of _First form
Latin grammar_ 1855; _Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont_ 1855. _d._
San Remo 20 April 1882. _Sermons by the late Rev. Edward Baines
edited with memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D._ 1883.
BAINES, REV. JOHN. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843; V. of
Little Marlow, Bucks 1859 to death; author of _Tales of the
Empire_ 1851; _Life of Archbishop Laud_ 1855; _Twenty sermons_
1857; _Hints for harvest services_ 1866. _d._ 63 Abingdon villas
Kensington, London 20 May 1880 aged 58.
BAINES, MATTHEW TALBOT (_eld. child of Edward Baines 1774–1848, M.P.
for Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Richmond gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam. scholar, B.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825,
bencher 1841, reader 1854, treasurer 1855; recorder of Hull
1837–47; Q.C. 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–1852 and for Leeds
1852–1859; pres. of Poor law board 1 Jany. 1849 to 2 March 1852
and 1 Jany. 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; P.C. 30 July 1849; mem. of
committee of council on education 10 March 1855; chancellor of
Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet 7 Dec. 1855 to 26
Feb. 1858. _d._ 13 Queen’s square, Westminster 22 Jany. 1860.
_Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 482–86; _Illust. News of
the World 24 Nov. 1860_, _portrait_.
NOTE.—He was the first dissenter admitted to a seat in the
Cabinet.
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