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Baines, Jane Capel; dau. of Rev. Isaac Steele, Curate, Upton on Severn, Worcs. ; Dame of 1 Little Dean’s Yard Jan 1805 – c.1809 ; m. 22 Apr 1783 Lieut. Capel Baines, Royal Navy (who d. 19 Mar 1789). [draft will for Jane Capel Baines, 1819, exists in Shropshire Archives]

BAINES, THOMAS, second son of John Baines, Laxham, Suffolk, and Elizabeth, sister of James Johnson (KS 1719, qv); bapt. 12 Sep 1738; in school list 1744; KS (aged 13) 1751; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1756, matr. 16 Jun 1756, Westminster Student 5 Jan - 9 Feb 1757 (void on migration to Cambridge [check]); migrated to Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jan 1764, matr. Mich. 1764; BA 1768; MA 1772; ordained priest Dec 1768; Rector of Upton on Severn, Worcs. 1768 – Oct 1772; Rector of Richard’s Castle, Herefs. , from 20 Oct 1772; [dispensation to hold R. Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex, with R. Little Wratting, Norfolk, 1786 : different individual ?]; Vicar of Caynham, Shropshire, 7 Sep 1792 - res Jul 1799; JP Shropshire, Herefordshire; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 4 Oct 1796 Mary, widow of Rev. Evan Humphreys, Rector of Montgomery and of Clungunford, Shropshire, and dau. of Rev. Salusbury Pryce DD, Rector of Montgomery; d. 7 Feb 1802.

BAINES, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 13) 1718.

BAINHAM, JOSEPH, son of Alexander Bainham, Westbury, Gloucs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Arnold Oldisworth, of Broadley, Gloucs., Clerk of the Hanaper; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1629; KS 1630 (Tanner MSS, Bodleian Library, lxix, f. 137 and f. 224).

BAINTON, ---; in school list 1754.

John Baird was born in Greenock in the west of Scotland. He studied with Herbert Howells and Sir Adrian Boult at the Royal College of Music. He became Director of Music at Westminster School in 1983 and then Composer-in-Residence from 1996 to 1999. He now works in Wandsworth Common, as organist and choirmaster at the local St Mary Magdalene church and conductor of Medici Choir.

BAIRD, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Baird, Auchmedden, Banffshire, and Anne, dau. of William Duff, Dipple, Morayshire, and sister of William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (I); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1733; Min. Can. 1736; KS 1737; elected to Trin. Coll. Cambridge 1741, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1741, scholar 7 May 1742; BA 1744/5; MA 1748; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1747, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1748; adm. Middle Temple 12 Nov 1739, called to bar 20 May 1748; d. May 1750, of gaol fever contracted at the Old Bailey.

Baird-Smith, Maurice James, son of Rev. Alexander MacEwen Baird-Smith, Rector of Wheat­hampstead, Herts, and Ellen Mary, d. of James Campbell, shipowner, of Glasgow; b. 14 Aug. 1918; adm. May 1932 (G); left July 1936; RAF, PO 1936, FO 1939; Sperry Gyroscope Co. 1937- 40; RAF 1941-5 (Sqdn-Ldr, temp. Wing-Cdr); DFC 1941; RAF Staff Coll. 1942; p.o.w. (Berlin) Jan. 1944; Shell Internal. 1945-59, man. in Chile, Cuba and Greece; Chilean Order of Bernardo O'Higgins 1959; m. 1st 23 Sept. 1943 Vyvyan, d. of Maj. J. R. C. Bodley MC, 60th Rifles; 2nd Monique Mousseau of Paris.

BAKER, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1565---7 (tutor, Prebendary Wiborne) (Chapter Muniments 5406).

BAKER, ---; b.; at school in 1569 (Chapter Muniments 54019).