Baillic, MATTHEW

Baillic, MATTHEW, anatomist, brother of the above, was born in Shotts manse in 1761. His mother was a sister of the two celebrated anatomists, William and John Hunter; and Matthew, after seven years at Glasgow and Oxford (1773-80), studied anatomy under his uncle William, with such success, that in 1783 he was found qualified to succeed to his practice and lectureship. Working often sixteen hours a day, he made a very large income—one year, £10,000—so that he purchased the estate of Duntisborne in Gloucestershire, and at his death there, on 23d September 1823, left a fortune besides of £80,000. His works, with a Life by Wardrop, appeared in 2 vols. in 1825. The most important is on Morbid Anatomy, published in 1795.