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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.
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.
BALDWIN, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Warren Baldwin of Toronto, lawyer who
d. 8 Jany. 1844_). _b._ Toronto 1804; partner with his father
1825–48; member of Assembly of Upper Canada 1829; executive
councillor 18 Feb. 1836 for short time; solicitor general 1840;
attorney general for Upper Canada Sep. 1842 and Feb. 1848 to July
1851; C.B. 23 June 1854. _d._ Spadina near Toronto 9 Dec. 1858.
_H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 397–405.
BALDY, JOHN PATEY. M.R.C.S. 1814; private teacher of anatomy and
surgery. _d._ 23 Pembroke st. Devonport 6 Sep. 1861 aged 67.
BALE, CHARLES SACKVILLE. Made a splendid collection of pictures at
71 Cambridge terrace, Edgeware road, London. _d._ 71 Cambridge
terrace 28 Nov. 1880 aged 89. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_,
329–32 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 116–21.
BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM (_only son of Balfe of Dublin, violinist
1783–1823_). _b._ 10 Pitt st. Dublin 15 May 1808; played the
violin at a concert in Royal Exchange, Dublin, May 1816; first
violinist in Drury Lane orchestra 1823; chief baritone at Italian
opera, Paris 1827–29; sang in Italy 1829–35; lessee of English
opera house Lyceum 9 March 1841 to 13 May 1841; conductor at Her
Majesty’s theatre 3 March 1846 to 1852 when house closed; went to
St. Petersburg 1852; purchased Rowney Abbey, Ware, Herts and
turned gentleman farmer 1864; chevalier of Legion of honour 22
March 1870; composed _Rivals_ 1829, _Siege of Rochelle_ 1835,
_Bohemian Girl_ 1843 (produced at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1843,
performed in almost every European country), _Rose of Castille_
1857, _Puritan’s daughter_ 1861, _Il Talismano_ produced at Her
Majesty’s theatre 1874; arranged _Moore’s Irish Melodies_ as duets
and quartets. (_m._ Lina Rozer a Hungarian prima donna). _d._
Rowney Abbey 20 Oct. 1870. _Balfe, his life and work by W. A.
Barrett_ 1882, _portrait_; _A memoir of M. W. Balfe by C. L.
Kenny_ 1875; _Illust. Review v_, 671–77, _portrait_;
_Recollections of J. R. Planché i_, 241 (1872), _portrait by
Thackeray_.
NOTE.—A statue of him was placed in the vestibule of Drury
Lane theatre 24 Sep. 1874, his memorial window in St.
Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, was uncovered 14 April 1879, and
his memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey was unveiled 20 Oct.
1882.
BALFE, VICTOIRE (_2 dau. of the preceding_). _b._ Rue de la
Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London
at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of _La
Sonnambula_; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St.
Petersburg 1857–59. (_m._ (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes
Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her
petition 20 Nov. 1863, she _m._ (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and _d._
Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) _bur._ Burgos cathedral. _Illust. news of
the world iii_, 328 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 116 (1857),
_portrait, lviii_, 115 (1871).
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792;
M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. _d._ Townley hall
near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.
BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1799;
lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co.
Louth 1841. _d._ Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.
BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest
21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road,
Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea
district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a
public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850;
_Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English
literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family
Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James
Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by
the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the
author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_.
BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of
Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11
Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural
science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor
Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct.
1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of
council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge
Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in
Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with
E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_;
author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_
1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left
Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont
Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the
Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review
xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_;
_Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58.
BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served
in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years;
employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853.
(_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec.
1884.
BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour,
minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._)
_b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ.
of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65
and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction
Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z.,
also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned
off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)
BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808;
ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.;
apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical
Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin.
1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society
of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a
lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in
Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb.
1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist
for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5
June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of
natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical
journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._
1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._
Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38
(1882).
BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of
St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.
BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846;
ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death;
served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep.
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