Baynes, THOMAS SPENCER

Baynes, THOMAS SPENCER, born at Wellington, Somerset, 24th March 1823, studied at Bristol College and Edinburgh University. At Edinburgh he became assistant to Sir William Hamilton, publishing a translation of the Port Royal Logic (1851), and an Essay on the New Analytic of Logical Forms (an exposition of Hamilton's Quantification of the Predicate). In 1857-64 he was assistant-editor of the Daily News, and in 1864 became professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics in the university of St Andrews. He had edited twenty-two volumes of the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica at his death, 30th May 1887. See his Shakspeare Studies (1894), with memoirs by Prof. Lewis Campbell, and Skelton's Table-talk of Shirley (1895).