Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Baynes, Thomas Spencer
BAYNES, Thomas Spencer, LL.D., born March 24, 1823, at Wellington, Somersetshire, was educated at a private school at Bath, at Bristol College, and at the University of Edinburgh. He waa assistant to Sir William Hamilton, Professor of Logic in that University, 1851–55; Examiner in Logic and Mental Philosophy in the University of London, 1857–63; and assistant-editor of the Daily News from the autumn of 1857 till Oct. 1864. During his residence in London, Mr. Baynes, besides writing a large number of articles in the Daily News on the civil war in America, contributed to several literary journals, especially the Literary Gazette and the Athenæum, but he kept up his studies in his special subject—logic and mental science—by delivering lectures, and taking private pupils to prepare for the University and India Civil Service Examinations. He was elected Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics in the University of St. Andrews in Oct. 1864. Professor Baynes has published a translation of the "Port Royal Logic," 1851, which has gone through seven editions; and an "Essay on the New Analytic of Logical Forms," with notes and historical appendix, 1852. Professor Baynes examined in Mental Philosophy for the India Civil Service in 1871. He was reappointed Examiner in Logic and Mental Philosophy in the University of London in 1873, and held the office for the usual term of five years. Professor Baynes was elected a member of the Athenæum Club by the committee in 1877. He is now editing the ninth edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica." Professor Baynes contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review (1869–75) eleven articles in all—some of which attracted considerable notice. At one time he contributed to the North British Review, and he wrote occasionally in Fraser's Magazine, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Saturday Review. He took his degree of LL.B. in the University of London; and the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh, April 22, 1874.