BAKER, William. b. 1784; an attorney in London; coroner for east division of Middlesex; author of A practical compendium of the recent statutes, cases and decisions affecting the office of coroner 1851. d. 12 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park 22 Feb. 1859.
BAKER, William. b. 19 May 1817; articled to G. W. Buck, C.E. 1834–39; engineer upon southern division of London and north western railway 1852–59, chief engineer of that line Oct. 1859–1878, during which time he carried out a great extent of railway works; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1848; member of council 1877 to death. d. 7 March 1878. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lv, 315–17 (1879).
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.
BALDOCK, Robert (youngest son of Thomas Baldock of Burwash Sussex, surgeon). b. Burwash July 1789; bookseller at 85 High Holborn, London 1814 to death. d. 85 High Holborn 5 Nov. 1861.