Volume 3

A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

  • Hugh James Rose
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BAILEY, or BALEY, (Walter,) was the son of Henry Baley, and bom in 1529, at Portsliam, in the county of Dorset. He received his education at the school of Winchester, whence he was sent to New college, Oxford, and after having served two years of probation, was a dmittedin 1550, a perpetual fellow of the college. He took the degree of master of arts at the university in the same year, then studied medicine, and was admitted to practice in 1558. He did not take his doctor’s degree until 1563, at which time he was proctor of the university, having previously held the prebendary of Dulcot, or Dultingcote, in the cathedral of Wells, which he re- signed in 1579. Previous to taking the degree of doctor of medicine, he had been appointed in 1561 one of the regius professors, and soon after taking it, he was named one of queen Elizabeth s physicians. He was much esteemed by his sovereign, and in her court he en- joyed great reputation. He died March 3, 1592, at the age of sixty-three years, and was buried in the inner chapel of New college. His works are, A Brief Dis- course of certain Medicinal Waters in the County of Warwick, near Newnham, Lond. 1587, 12mo; A Discourse of three Kinds of Pepper in common use, Lond. 1588, 8vo; A Brief Treatise on the Pre- servation of the Eyesight, Lond. n. d. 12mo; again in 1602, 1616, 1654, and 1673; Directions for Health, Natural and Artificial, with Two Treatises of Ap- proved Medicines for all Diseases of the Eyes, Lond. 1626, 4to. A MS. by Bailey was preserved in the collection of Robert, marquis of Aylesbury, entitled, Expli- cate Galeni de Potu Convalescentum et Senum, et praecipue de nostra: Aim et Birim Paratione. BAILEY, (Peter,) aningenious author, and editor of a periodical called The Museum, was the son of a solicitor at Nantwich, in Cheshire, and received his education at Rugby and Merton college, Oxford; whence he proceeded to Lon- don for the purpose of reading for the bar. He entered himself at one of the Temples, but the nature of his pursuits may be supposed from the fact, that he, about the same time, published a humor- ous poetical work, entitled, Sketches from St. George’s Fields, by Giorgine di Castel Chiuso; a poem of his entitled, Idwal, printed, but not published, founded on the events connected with the con- quest of Wales. At the end of the volume was a Greek poem, afterwards 4 published in the Classical Journal. His last publication was an anonymous poem, called, A Queen’s Appeal, in the Spen- serian stanza. He died suddenly on the 25th of January, 1823, leaving children. (Gentleman’s Magazine.) BAILIE, (Cuthbert,) lord high trea- surer of Scotland, was descended from an ancient family in Lanarkshire, and at an early age entered the church, for which he had been educated. In the first instance he was made a canon of Glasgow, and then rector of Cumnock in Ayreshire. King James IV . made him (being then commendator of Glenluce) treasurer on the 29th of October, 1512, which office he held until his death in 1514. (Crauford’s Officers of the Crown in Scotland.) BAILIE, (Edward,) an active English officer, who was bom of an Irish family, on the 15th of December, 1778, and after the completion of his education received a commission in the marines, in February 1796. In the same year he sailed for the Mediterranean, where, as well as in the Channel, he saw much sendee during that and the next year. In 1798 and 1799, he was much em- ployed on the coasts of France and Ire- land, and was in one of the ships which mutinied. In 1800 and 1801, he was engaged in the expedition to Egypt, and was the only officer of marines who de- barked with the army on the 8th of March. He, at first, did duty with the 27tli regiment, and afterwards joined the battalion, formed by Ills corps, under lieu- tenant-colonel Smith, to which he became adjutant, and was present at most of the engagements which preceded the deci- sive battle of the 21st of March. On the 14th of March the marines were thanked in general orders by Sir Ralph Aber- crombie, for their conduct on the pre- ceding day. Joining the earl of Dal- liousie before Aboukir, they assisted at the capture of that town, and again received the thanks of the commander- in-chief. In 1803 and 1804, Bailie was in Newfoundland, and in 1805, 1806, and 1807, in the West Indies, where he was present in the action of Sir John Duckworth off St. Domingo. He also saw much boat service in the Pique, under the command of admiral Ross. In the Mediterranean, where he was from 1808 to 1814, both years inclusive, he again saw much boat service. In the attacks upon Reggio, he manifested the greatest courage and enterprise, which also marked his conduct in the well-
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