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BAINES, EDWARD (1774-1848)

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BAINES, See also:EDWARD (1774-1848) , See also:English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was See also:born in 1774 at See also:Walton-le-See also:Dale, near See also:Preston, See also:Lancashire. He was educated at the See also:grammar See also:schools of Hawkshead and Preston, and at the See also:age of sixteen was apprenticed to a prin'er in the latter See also:town. After remaining there four years and a See also:half he removed to See also:Leeds, finished his apprentice-See also:ship, and at once started in business for himself. He was alwaysa most assiduous student, and quickly became known as a See also:man of See also:great See also:practical shrewdness and ability, who took a keen See also:interest in See also:political and social movements. His political opinions led him to sympathize with See also:nonconformity and he soon joined the See also:Independents. In 18or the assistance of party See also:friends enabled him to buy the Leeds See also:Mercury. Provincial See also:newspapers did not at that See also:time possess much See also:influence; it was no See also:part of the editor's See also:duty to See also:supply what are now called "leading articles," and the See also:system of See also:reporting was defective. In both respects Baines made a See also:complete See also:change in the Mercury. His able political articles gradually made the See also:paper the See also:organ of Liberal See also:opinion in Leeds, and the connexion of the Baines See also:family with the paper made their influence powerful for many years in this direction. Baines soon began to take a prominent part in politics; he was an ardent See also:advocate of See also:parliamentary reform, and it was mainly by his influence that See also:Macaulay was returned for Leeds in 1832; and in 1834 he succeeded Macaulay as member. He was re-elected in 1835 and 1837, but resigned in 1841. In See also:parliament he supported the Liberal party, but with See also:independent views.

Like his son Edward after him, he strongly advocated the separation of See also:

church and See also:state, and opposed See also:government interference in See also:national See also:education. His letters to See also:Lord See also:John See also:Russell on the latter question (1846) had a powerful influence in deter-See also:mining the See also:action of the government. He died in 1848. His best-known writings are: The See also:History, See also:Directory and Gazetteer of the See also:County of See also:York; History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of See also:Lancaster; History of the County See also:Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. He was also the author of a History of the See also:Wars of See also:Napoleon, which was continued under the See also:title of A History of the Reign of See also:George III. His See also:Life (1861) has been written by his son, See also:Sir Edward Baines (1800-18.9o), who was editor and afterwards proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, M.P. for Leeds (1859-1874), and was knighted in 1880; his History of the See also:Cotton Manufacture (1835) was See also:long a See also:standard authority. An See also:elder son, See also:Matthew See also:Talbot, Baines (1799-1860), went to the See also:bar, and became See also:recorder of See also:Hull (1837). He became M.P. for Hull in 1847, and in 1849 See also:president of the Poor See also:Law See also:Board. In 1852 he was returned for Leeds, and again became president of the Poor Law Board (till 1855). In 1856 he entered the See also:cabinet as See also:chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.

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