BAKER, SIR WILLIAM ERSKINE (_son of Joseph Baker, capt. R.N._) _b._ Leith 1808; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826, col. commandant 10 March 1857; military sec. at India office 1858; member of council of India 1861–1875; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 29 Nov. 1878; K.C.B. 1 Feb. 1870. (_m._ 1837 Frances Gertrude 3 dau. of major general A. Duncan). _d._ the Castle, Banwell 16 Dec. 1881. BAKER, REV. WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 3 Sep. 1798; agent of Home missionary society at Ramsey, Isle of Man 1822–28; minister of independent chapel at Shepton Mallet, Somerset 1828–38; sec. of New British and Foreign Temperance Society 1838–41; minister of Portland chapel St. John’s Wood, London 1841–51; a founder of United Kingdom temperance and general provident Institution 1840, resident director 1852; author of _The curse of Britain_ 1838; _The idolatry of Britain_ 1840; _Our state church_ 1850; _Anti-mysticism_ 1855. _d._ Down house near Sutton, Surrey 28 Sep. 1861. _Life of the late Rev. W. R. Baker, edited by his sister Mrs. E. L. Edmunds_ 1865. BALD, ROBERT. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1776; engaged in the Mar collieries; a mining engineer at Edin. about 1820; much employed in Scotland, England and Wales; reported on coalfields of Sweden for the Swedish government; F.R.S. Edin. 1817; author of _A general view of the coal trade of Scotland_ 1812; of the article _Mine_ in the _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_ and of many papers. _d._ Alloa 28 Dec. 1861. BALD, WILLIAM, _b._ Burnt Island, Fifeshire; a civil engineer 1803; made a territorial survey of co. Mayo about 1810, his map on a scale of 4 inches to a mile was one of the finest maps ever constructed; a draftsman at the Admiralty; resident engineer to trustees of the river Clyde 1839–45; examined the river Seine 1845. _d._ 1857. _Quarterly journal of Geological Society xiv_, 42–43 (1858). BALDERS, CHARLES WILLIAM MORELY (_eld. son of Charles Morely Balders of West Barsham, Norfolk_). _b._ Sunderland 4 Feb. 1804; cornet 3 dragoons 10 Nov. 1825, and major 1845–48; major 5 dragoon guards 1848–54; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Jany. 1858 to 31 Aug. 1860; col. 17 lancers 4 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 28 Oct. 1869; C.B. 24 May 1847. _d._ 11 Adelaide crescent, Brighton 21 Sep. 1875. BALDERSON, ABRAHAM THOMAS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1826; assistant to Sir Astley Cooper 1825–41; examiner of lunatics, parish of St. James, Westminster. _d._ 37 Woburn sq. London 3 Feb. 1872 BALDOCK, EDWARD HOLMES. _b._ 1812; M.P. for Shrewsbury 30 July 1847 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 8 Grosvenor place, London 15 Aug. 1875 from effect of walking through a plate glass window in Alexander Collie’s house, 12 Kensington palace gardens.