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THOMAS SPENCER BAYNES (1823–1887)

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

Lewis Campbell .

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