BAIGRIE, Robert (son of John Baigrie of Fearn, Rossshire). Entered Bombay army 3 Feb. 1848; major staff corps 3 Feb. 1868; quartermaster general Bombay army to 1874; commandant 28 N.I. 20 May 1876 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Poona 25 Sep. 1877. I.L.N. lxxi, 481, 482 (1877), portrait.
BAIKIE, William Balfour (eld son of John Baikie captain R.N.). b. Kirkwall, Orkney 27 Aug. 1825; ed. at Kirkwall gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D.; assistant surgeon R.N. 1848; surgeon and naturalist to expedition to the river Niger 1854; commanded expedition to river Niger 1 April 1857; author of Narrative of an exploring voyage up the river Niger 1856. d. at house of Charles Heddle, Sierra Leone 12 Dec. 1864. Journal of royal geographical society xxxv, 123 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi, 88 (1865), portrait.
BAILES, William Haigh. b. 1821; solicitor at Boston 1843 to death; member of Boston town council 1863–72, alderman 1872, mayor 1873. d. 14 April 1885.
BAILEY, Rev. Benjamin. V. of Dallington, Northampton 1819; senior chaplain in Ceylon; archdeacon of Colombo 1852 to death. d. Nottingham place, Marylebone 25 June 1853 aged 62.
BAILEY, Crawshay. b. Wenham, Suffolk 24 Oct. 1789; an ironmaster in South Wales; sheriff of Brecon 1835, of Monmouth 1850; took out a patent for railway rails 1843; M.P. for Monmouth 1852–68. d. Llanfoist near Abergavenny 9 Jany. 1872.
BAILEY, Fanny (dau. of John Mitchell of Ferring, Sussex, farmer). b. Ferring 7 Aug. 1777. d. Christchurch schools, Worthing 6 April 1881 aged 103 years and 8 months. I.L.N. lxxviii 440 (1881), portrait; N. and Q. 5 S. viii, 265 (1877), xii, 407 (1879), 6 S. iii, 485 (1881).
BAILEY, James. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823; head master of Perse’s Free school Cam.; granted a Civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; edited Forcellini’s Latin dictionary 2 vols. 1826; author of Comicorum Græcorum fragmenta 1840. d. London 13 Feb. 1864.
BAILEY, Sir Joseph, 1 Baronet (elder son of Joseph Bailey of Wakefield 1747–1813). b. Great Wenham priory, Suffolk 21 Jany. 1783; an ironmaster in Brecknock and Monmouth; chairman of Birkenhead docks company; sheriff of Monmouth 1823; M.P. for Worcester 1835–47 and for Brecknockshire 1847 to death; created a baronet 5 July 1852. d. Glanusk park, Brecknockshire 20 Nov. 1858.
BAILEY, Samuel. b. Sheffield 1791; one of the trustees of Sheffield 1828; a founder of Sheffield Banking company 1831, and chairman; contested Sheffield 14 Dec. 1832 and 12 Jany. 1835; his supporters founded a Bailey club; pres. of Sheffield Literary and Philosophical society several times; author of Essays on the formation and publication of opinions 1821, 3 ed. 1831; Critical dissertation on the nature, measure, and causes of Value 1825; Maro or poetic irritability in four cantos [anon.] 1845; The theory of reasoning 1851, 2 ed. 1852; Letters on the philosophy of the human mind, 3 series, 1855–1863. d. Norbury near Sheffield 18 Jany. 1870, left about £90,000 for benefit of that town. English psychology translated from the French of T. Ribot (1873) 315–22; British Controversialist July 1868 pp. 1–25; N. and Q. 5 S. ix 182–85, 216 (1878).
BAILEY, Thomas. b. Nottingham 31 July 1785; a silk hosier there, then a wine merchant; contested Nottingham July 1830; member of town council 26 Dec. 1835 to 1843; proprietor and editor of Nottingham Mercury 1846–52; author of What is life, and other poems 1820; Recreations in retirement 1836; Annals of Nottinghamshire 4 vols. 1852–55, originally published in 32 shilling parts; Records of Longevity 1857, and 9 other books. d. Old Bassford near Nottingham 23 Oct. 1856. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 341–50.