BALDOCK, Thomas. Midshipman R.N. 25 Oct. 1806; superintended packet service at Dover 19 Aug. 1846 to Sep. 1852; captain on h.p. 9 Jany. 1854; retired R.A. 10 Sep. 1869; K.T.S. 1 May 1837. d. Hastings 11 March 1871 aged 81.
BALDWIN, Augustus. Entered navy May 1794: captain 1 Jany. 1817; retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. d. Toronto 5 Jany. 1866.
BALDWIN, Charles (3 son of Henry Baldwin of London, printer, who founded the St. James’s Chronicle 1761). b. 1774; sole proprietor of St. James’s Chronicle and Morning Herald; founded the Standard evening paper 21 May 1827, published in it the news of the surrender of Varna 11 Oct. 1828 a fortnight before arrival of the Government couriers; contested Lambeth Aug. 1837 and July 1841; master of the Stationers’ company 1842 and 1843; retired from business 1844; probably oldest volunteer in the kingdom. d. 27 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Feb. 1869 in 95 year. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 313–15 (1869).
BALDWIN, Charles Barry (eld. son of Charles Baldwin, lieut. col. of Kings county militia). b. 1789; barrister I.T. 26 Nov 1824; secretary to comrs. for claims on France, sole comr. to 1830; M.P. for Totnes 1830–32 and 1839–52. d. Paris 13 April 1859.
BALDWIN, Connell James (son of James Baldwin of Clohina, co. Cork). b. Clohina; ensign 87 foot 23 July 1807; captain 50 foot 10 Feb. 1820 to 22 Feb. 1827 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula for which he received a medal and 10 clasps; raised a regiment at Cork for Emperor of Brazil but brought the men back again on being ordered to the interior of Brazil as settlers; went to Canada about 1828; raised a regiment of Militia for defence of the frontier in troubles of 1837–38. d. Toronto 14 Dec. 1861. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 733–35.
BALDWIN, Edward. b. Waterford; a pugilist 6 feet 5 inches in height; beaten by Andrew Marsden 21 Oct. 1863; beat George Iles 19 Feb. 1866; beat A. Marsden 25 Sep. 1866; matched to fight Joseph Wormald for Championship 29 April 1867 but forfeited his stakes; matched to fight James Mace for Championship 15 Oct. 1867 but Mace was arrested; fought J. Wormald at Lynnfield Massachusetts 1868 for Championship and 2,500 dollars when police interfered, he was awarded the stakes as Wormald declined to renew the fight; shot dead in the United States Sep. 1875. Modern Boxing by Pendragon (1879) 83–89; Illust. Sporting News v, 97 (1866), portrait.
BALDWIN, George Walter. Major 31 foot 1863–64; major 20 foot 1864 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura, about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i, 15–54. (1871); F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i, 485–98 (1874), ii, 1–5 (1875).
BALDWIN, Henry. Called to bar in Ireland 1826; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; law adviser of the Castle during state trials 1848–49; comr. of insolvent court 1850 to death. d. Dublin 24 May 1854.
BALDWIN, Martin. b. Coalbrookdale Shropshire 22 Nov. 1788; an engine factor at Bradley near Bilston 1809; carried on the Lower Bovereux colliery; invented many improvements in the construction of engines and machinery. d. Newbridge crescent, Wolverhampton 16 Feb. 1872.
BALDWIN, Robert (only son of Benjamin Baldwin of Faringdon, Berkshire surgeon). Printer and bookseller in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1806–10, and in Paternoster row 1810; united his business with that of another firm under name of Baldwin, Cradock and Joy; started the London Magazine Jany. 1820, in opposition to Blackwood’s Mag. transferred it to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey 1821; became insolvent; a stock keeper of Company of Stationers 1834 to death. d. Cumberland place, Westbourne grove north, 29 Jany. 1858 aged 78.