BAXTER, CRICHTON M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived at Dundee. _d._ Feb. 1881. _Chess problems by the late C. M. Baxter_ 1883, _portrait_. BAXTER, SIR DAVID (_2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire, export merchant_). _b._ Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856 and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4 scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. _d._ Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty sworn under £1,098,000 Dec. 1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 400–407; _J. Thomson’s History of Dundee_ (1874) 385–90. BAXTER, EDWARD. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but declined; retired from business about 1834. _d._ 27 July 1856 aged 77. BAXTER, EDWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export merchant_). _b._ 3 April 1791; partner with his father about 1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the merchant princes of Dundee. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July 1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 368–74. BAXTER, EVAN BUCHANAN (_son of James Baxter, director of the English school at St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll. Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society, _Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols._ 1872–73; edited _Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica_ _4 ed._ 1874. _d._ 28 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. _Lancet 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 181. BAXTER, FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY (_younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of Dundee, merchant_). _b._ Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to _Tait’s Magazine_ and other periodicals; edited the _Dundee Advertiser_; author of _Percy Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Broughty Ferry, near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 358–60.