Born in Chancery Lane London, the son of William Baker, a clerk in Chancery. Apprenticed at the age of 15 to John Parker a bookseller. At the close of his indentures in 1720 he became involved with the education of deaf-mutes, and ‘his services being in great demand among the upper classes, he soon realised a substantial fortune'. His remarkable success attracted the attention of Daniel Defoe whose daughter Sophia Baker he subsequently married in April 1729.

There are beetles collected by him in the Museum at Colombo, Sri Lanka. (all bear printed labels dated 1916) and various references in G.J. Arrow’s FBI volumes. (MD 9/01)

Smith (1986),101, notices that a collection of Coleoptera made by Bairstow in the Cape of Good Hope was acquired by the HDO in 1882. (MD 9/01)

This is probably the same Bainbridge who is mentioned by Stephens (1828-1831), I, 11, 12, etc.) He was a Fellow of the Entomological ,Society from 1833 until his death, and in 1836 was appointed Curator of the collections. Neave & Griffin (1933), 66-67, record that his wages were initially six shillings a day for three days a week and that his main task was to add red labels to distinguish the Kirby collection from the rest. A committee of Messers Hanson, Shuckard and Westwood was set up to supervise his work.

Received his education in Manchester, firstly in a school under the well-known conchologist Dr Adams, and later at Owens College where he graduated in 1891. Married in 1895 and after practising as a Doctor of Medicine in Manchester, moved to the Isle of Man in about 1902 because of his wife's ill health. There J.R.le B. Tomlin records that he was a 'trenchant and convincing speaker in the local Debating Society, (Ent.mon.Mag., 45, 1909, 260-61). He had one son, and died at the early age of thirty-nine, in Port Erin.

Published a note entitled 'Death Watch’ in Sci. Gossip, (2), 1867, 254-55 (MD 9/01)

Hancock & Pettit (1981) notice that C.E. Bailey gave Coleoptera and general British insects (some captured near Carnforth) to the Manchester Museum. This may be the Charles Bailey who published two articles in Memoirs Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 'On the decrease of entomologists' (6, 1889, 90) and 'On so called carnivorous plants' (7, 1897, 41). (MD 9/01)

Born at Kirkwall, Orkney, the oldest son of Captain John Baikie RN. Educated at the local grammar school and the University of Edinburgh where he obtained his MD. Entered the Royal Navy in 1848 as a surgeon and after serving on various ships in the Mediterranean, became assistant surgeon at the Haslar Hospital, Gosport, from 1851-54.

Primarily known for his work on minor insect groups and terrestrial invertebrates, but he did publish one or two articles about beetles including: 'Notes on some Coleoptera imported into our northern ports’, Ent.mon.Mag., 42, 1906, 36-38.

Coleoptera and other insects collected by him were donated to the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne between 1904-1909. For a biographical note, etc. see L.A. Mound, ‘A review of R.B. Bagnall's Thysanoptera Collections’, Bull.Brit.Mus.nat.Hist. (Ent. Suppl.) 2, 1968, 1-180. (MD 9/01)