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BAYNES, THOMAS SPENCER (1823–1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 557 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAYNES, See also:THOMAS See also:SPENCER (1823–1887) , See also:English editor and See also:man of letters, the son of a Baptist See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Wellington, See also:Somerset, on the 24th of See also:March 1823. He studied at See also:Edinburgh University, where he was a See also:pupil of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton, whose assistant he became and of whose views on See also:logic he became the authorized exponent. This teaching was embodied in his See also:Essay on the New See also:Analytic of Logical Forms, published in 185o, the same See also:year in which he took his See also:London University degree. This was followed in the next year by a See also:translation of See also:Arnauld's See also:Port Royal Logic. In 185o he had become editor of the Edinburgh See also:Guardian, but after four years' See also:work his See also:health gave way. He spent two years in Somerset and then went to London, becoming, in 1858, assistant editor of the Daily See also:News. In 1864 he was appointed See also:professor of logic See also:metaphysics and English literature at the university of St See also:Andrews, and in 1873 the editorship of the ninth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica was entrusted to him. He conducted it singly until 1881, when the decline of his health rendered it necessary to provide him with a coadjutor in the See also:person of Prof. W. See also:Robertson See also:Smith. Baynes, however, continued to be engaged upon the work until his See also:death on the 31st May 1887, shortly before its completion. His See also:article on See also:Shakespeare (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.) was republished in 1894, along with other essays on Shakespearian topics and a memoir by Prof.

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