BAXTER, GEORGE (_2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858_). A wood engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836, employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the “Pictorial Album” 1836. _d._ The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867 aged 62. BAXTER, GEORGE R. WYTHEN. Author of _Modern refinement_ 1834; _Humour and pathos_ 1838; _The book of the Bastiles_ 1841; edited _Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost_ 1839. _d._ Bryn, Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854. BAXTER, JOHN. _b._ Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common nettle; published _Library of practical agriculture_ 1846, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket published as _Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide_; established _Sussex Agricultural Express_ 1837. _d._ Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 283–84, _portrait_. BAXTER, JOHN BOYD (_son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant_). _b._ 1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee 1825 to death. _d._ Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882. BAXTER, MARY ANN. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000 for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883. _d._ Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to upwards of £283,000. BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (_eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster, solicitor_). _b._ Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of _The national income_ 1868; _The taxation of the United Kingdom_ 1869; _English parties and conservatism_ 1870; _The national debts of the various states of the world_ 1871. _d._ 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. _Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii_, 259–61 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 547 (1875), _portrait_. BAXTER, WILLIAM. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of _British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols._ 1834–43. _d._ Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year. BAXTER, WILLIAM RALEIGH. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of _A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry_ 1851; edited _Medical Record_. _d._ Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.