BAUMANN, Jean François, b. Belgium; lived in London for 25 years before his death; the best player on the bassoon. d. Albert st. Regent’s park, London 25 Aug. 1856 aged 52. I.L.N. iv, 29 (1844), portrait.
BAUME, Pierre Henri Joseph. b. Marseilles 1797; private secretary to Ferdinand I, king of the two Sicilies 1815; went to London about 1825; naturalised 1832; a preacher of doctrine of reforming optimism; a theatrical manager; proprietor of some model experimental gardens near Holloway, and a promoter in Manchester of public houses without intoxicating drinks about 1850; bought a large estate at Colney Hatch valued at £40,000; organised Sunday lectures in Manchester; lived at Douglas Isle of Man 1857 to death. d. Duke st. Douglas 28 Oct. 1875. Left all his property in trust for philanthropic purposes in Isle of Man. G. J. Holyoakes History of co-operation i, 349–51 (1875), ii, 400–405 (1879).
BAUMGARDT, John Gregory. Ensign 91 foot 1 Aug. 1798; lieut. col. of 31 foot 12 Jany. 1826 and of 2 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Bristol recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 6 June 1840. d. Rue de L’Oratoire, Champs Elysées, Paris 7 May 1855 aged 72.
BAXENDALE, Joseph (eld. son of Josiah Baxendale of Lancaster, surgeon who d. 1834). b. Lancaster Sep. 1785; partner in firm of Pickford & Co. carriers 1817 to death; chairman of South eastern railway to 1844; A.I.C.E. 8 Feb. 1839. d. Woodside, Whetstone, Middlesex 24 March 1872.
BAXTER, Charles. b. Little Britain, London March 1809; a painter chiefly of miniatures and portraits; exhibited 45 pictures at the R.A, 1834–72; member of Society of British Artists 1842, exhibited 127 pictures there 1842–79. d. Lewisham 10 Jany. 1879. Art Journal (1864) 145–7, (1879) 73; I.L.N. lxxiv, 72 (1879), portrait.
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.