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HALL OF FAME(still under construction) The following are some of the more well known Baughan etc. individuals (not in any particular order). Blanche Edith Baughan (1870 - 1958) Charles Baughan 1902 Edward Algernon Baughan 1865 - 1938 Harry Gilbert Baughn 1924 John J Baughan 1928 Michael Lynn Baughn 1948 Milton Lee Baughn 1920 Otis James Baughn 1877 - 1948 Peter Edward Baughan (1934 - ) Richard Baughan - Sheriff Robert Elroy Baughn 1940 William Baffin ( - 1622)
About 3rd May 1783 John cut 5 woollen blankets from the rack and tenters near Witney, Oxfordshire. John was described at his trial as a labourer and living at Asthall,Oxon). John was commited to Oxford goal in the week preceding Saturday 31st May. JOJ printed on Wednesday 30th July he had been found guilty; he was sentenced to death but this was reprieved. The trial appears to have taken three days; he had pleaded not guilty. JOJ reported on Thursday 18th March 1784 that John Baughan was removed from Oxford Castle to be transported to America for 7 years. On 22nd March 1784, with 21 other convicts, he was "delivered on board of the ship (Mercury) at the Galliard below Woolwich". He was one of the 66 captured by "Helena" at Torbay on 13th April after the mutineers had brought the transport into harbour and was sent to Exeter, Devon for committal to gaol on 16th April. JOJ reported that the convicts had escaped from the "Great Duke of Tuscany" transport. On 11th March 1787 he was embarked on "Friendship", where Ralph Clark recorded him as "Jno Baughn, 33 , Cabt. Makr", noting that he had been born in Warwickshire. On 13th May 1787 "Friendship" set sail from Portsmouth with the 'First Fleet' to Australia . John became well known for building Windmills. On 25th September 1797, by then overseer of carpenters, Baughan was buried at Sydney.
Blanche Edith Baughan 1870 - 1958 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND Authoress and Prison Reformer She was born in 1870 at Putney, Surrey, England, the daughter of John Baughan, a London Stockbroker. In spite of strong parental opposition she attended London University where in 1892 she graduated BA with honours in Greek. About this time she joined the English suffragette movement and also did extensive welfare work among the poor int the East End of London. Blanche Baughan has always evinced a desire to travel and in the following years she visited many countries. She came to New Zealand about 1900, where she toured widely and wrote extensively about the many littel known places she visited. Her pamphlets on Akaroa, Arthur's Pass, Milford Track, the Thermal Regions and the Southern Alps contain some fine descriptive passages, and all have been reprinted many times. They were collected in her 'Studies of New Zealand Scenery' (1916) and 'Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery' (1922). In addition she collaborated with L. Cockayne (q.v) to write 'The Summit Road - its scenery, Botany and Geology' (1914). In her day Blanche Baughan was widely known for her contributions to such literary journals as 'The Spectator' (London), 'Bookfellow' and 'The Australian' (Sydney), and 'The Canterbury Times'. Her first two volumes, 'Verses' (1898) and 'Reuben and other poems' (1903) appeared in England, but all her later works were published in New Zealand. Of these, 'Shingle-short' (1908) is a long verse monologue written in the New Zealand dialect, while her next volume, 'Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven' (1912), is an entertaining collection of vivid prose portraits of many facets of colonial life. 'Early Days', from her last volume, 'Poems from the Port Hills, Christchurch' (1923), captures, for a moment, life as it was in the early days of the Akaroa settlement. Apart from her literary and descriptive writings Blanche Baughan was deeply interested in all kinds of social welfare. Her most outstanding contribution in this regard, however, was made in the field of penal reform. To this end she once joined the staff of the Point Halswell Women's Reformatory, Wellington, where she studied the problem in all its aspects. Early in 1924 she formed a Christchurch branch of the Howard League and, four years later, after she had toured New Zealand on its behalf, she formed the New Zealand Howard League for Penal Reform, which she soon had branches in many centres. From her first-hand experience of conditions in New Zealand prisons she formed her ideas on the subject and obtained much material for her book, People in Prison, which was published anonymously in 1936. Prisoners, she believed, could be divided into two categories - the socially immature (those who are fully grown in body but not in social understanding), and the mentally defective. The former, who were by far the more numerous, could grow into good citizens if they were given help that normal children require - namely, healthy outlets for their activities. For these, punishment should aim at being reformative rather than retaliatory. She urged that a magistrate be given the probation officer's report on cases before sentence was passed and that he should take this report into consideration when determining the type of punishment required. Although these ideas met strong resistance when they first propounded, many of them have since been accepted officially and incorporated into the New Zealand penal system. Blanche Baughan was interested in the welfare of the sick and handicapped and also in the prevention of cruelty to animals. She volunteered as a nurse during the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was an active member of the Red Cross and a foundation member of the Canterbury Women's Club. In 1935 she received the King George V Jubliee Medal for her literary and social services. She died on 20th August 1958 at Selwyn Avenue, Akaroa. An indomitable campaigner for causes in which she believed, Blanche Baughan, be her educational background, her wide experience in many fields of welfare, and her ability as an authoress and publisher, was well fitted to be a leader in social work in New Zealand. F.A. De La Mare Papers. MS 144, Turnbull Library;Australian MSS, Vol III Turnbull Library; New Zealand Women's Weekly, 21 Nov 1935; Akaroa Mail 22 Aug 1958 (Obit). Akaroa 1918 42p Arthur’s Pass & the Otira Gorge 1925 67p Brown Bread from a Colonial oven 1912? 208p The finest walk in the world 1913 49p Forest and Ice 1912 47p Glimpses of N.Z. Scenery 1922 323p Mt Egmont 1929 75p People in Prison (TIS = pseudonym) 1936 172p Poems from the Port Hills 39p A river of pictures and peace 1913? 39p Shingle short and other verses 1908? 205p Snow kings of the Southern Alps 51p Studies in N Z Scenery 1916 282p Uncanny country 55p Verses 1898 144p
Directory of American Scholars 74E See TURLERUS (Hieronymus) The Traveller 1575 With an introduction by D.E.Baughan 1951
Edward Algernon Baughan (1865 - 1938) WHO WAS WHO 1929 - 40 born 2nd December 1865; 2nd son of the late William Frederick Baughan CB of the Admiralty; married; two sons. Educated North London Collegiate School; privately. After leaving school was employed at Lloyd's for some years, contributing to various newspapers in his leisure time; left the city 1891; Editor of the Musical Standard 1892 - 1902; in the meantime was appointed musical critic of the Morning Leader; joined the Daily News as a musical critic 1902; undertook dramatic criticism as well for that journal, 1904; in May 1912 resigned musical criticism on Daily News, but wrote musical criticism for Glasgow Herald, the Nation, and other periodicals until 1919; has contributed articles to the Outlook, Nation, Monthly Musical Opinion, Monthly Musical Record, Monthly Review, Saturday Review, Fortnightly, Nineteenth Century, The Era, and English Reviews; and Encyclopaedia Britannica; owing to ill-health abandoned all journalistic work,1936. Died 26th November 1938 Recreations:walking,swimming and gardening ; held a Bisley certificate as Instructor of Musketry Who was who among English and European Authors Who's who among Living Authors of Older Nations Notable Names in American Theatre Who's who in the Theatre The Birmingham Festival Illustration From the Windsor Magazine 8vo 1909 (October) Ignaz Jan Paderewski John Lane:London 1908 (living Masters of Music) Music & Musicians John Lane:London 1906
Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations,Directors & Executives 75 Who's Who in Finance & Industry 74
Who FtbI 74
Peter Edward Baughan (1934 - ) The Author's and Writer's Who's Who 71, International Author's and Writers 76,-77 The Writer's Directory 76-80
Who's who in America 74-76 Who's who in Government 75 Who's who in American Law
Allibone:A critical Dictionary of English Literature Supplement Shakepseare's Plays. Abridges ... 1863 Character indicated by Handwriting,with illustrations "The Bazaar":London 1877 Second Edition enlarged L.U.Gill:London 1886 Third Edition revised and enlarged W Rider & Son:London 1919 Chirognoancy;or,Indications of temperament and aptitudes manifested by the form and texture of the thumb and fingers G Redway:London 1884 The Handbook of Palmistry Third Edition revised G Redway:London 1885 Sixth Edition G Redway:London The Handbook of Physiognomy G Redway:London 1885 The Influence of the Stars;a book of old world lore illustrated G Redway:London 1889 The Leather Work Book:containing full instructions for making and ornamenting articles so as to ... imitate carved oak "The Bazaar":London 1875 The northern watering places of France. Aguide for English people to the holiday resorts on the coasts of the French Netherlands,Picardy etc "The Bazaar":London 1880 Two Love Stories. A Christmas Gift Book William Poole:London 1878 Winter Havens in the Sunny South. A complete handbook to the Riviera, with a notice of the new station, Alassio "Bazaar":London 1880 also wrote "A wasted life" (advertisement in last book)
Who's who in American Law 79
American Men and Women of Science 73P,76P,79P
Who's Who in Finance & Industry 77
Who's who in the Midwest 76 - 78
Directory of American Scholars 74H,78H
Judge The National Cyclopaedia Of American Biography 39
WhoAm 74 -76
Who's who in the South and Southwest 76,78 W L 1977 Ward's Who's Who among US Motor Vehicle Manufacturers
American Men and Women of Science 73S - 78S Contemporary Authors IR, Who's who in America 74,76,78 Who's who in the West 74,76 The changing structure of the Louisiana Economy Baton Rouge 1954 (Louisiana Business Bulletin Vol 15 No1) See Walker (Ernest W) and Baughn (W H) Financial Planning and Policy1964 (at time of writing was Associate Dean & Professor of Finance,The College of Business Administration,The University of Texas)
Cook,Confectioner,Bread and Biscuit Baker, and Foreign Wine Merchant,Carfax, and 107 High Street.Factory and Office,Blue Boar Street.
20th February 1880 Deaths. At Montpelier road, Brighton aged 49
Undiscovered country. Morning thoughts to brace the spirit of the common man MacMillan & Co:New York 1946
The call to the Ministry Church Pastorial Aid Society:London 1962 "one of the Falcon Booklets" Moses and the venture of faith London:Mowbrays 1978 1982 Hymns for today's church - Music & words edition - Consultant Editor Information taken from People of Today 1995. @ 1995 Debrett's Peerage Ltd. CHESTER, 39 Bishop of 1982-; patron of 114 livings, Canonries of his Cathedral, the Archdeaconries of Chester and Macclesfield, and the Chancellorship of the Diocese; The See, anciently part of the diocese of Lichfield, was erected into a distinct Bishopric by Henry VIII in 1541, and the abbey-church of St Werburgh became its Cathedral; s of Alfred Henry Baughen (d 1956), and Clarice Adelaide Baughen (d 1986); b 7 June 1930; Educ Bromley Co GS, Univ of London, Oak Hill Theol Coll (BD); m 1956, Myrtle Newcomb Phillips; 2 s, 1 da; Career served in Royal Signals 1948-50; with Martins Bank 1946-48 and 1950-51; ordained: deacon 1956, priest 1957; curate: Nottingham 1956-59, Reigate 1959-61; candidates sec Church Pastoral Aid Soc 1961-64, rector Holy Trinity Rusholme 1964-70, vicar All Souls Langham Place 1970-75 (next to Broadcasting House and whence BBC transmitted daily services), rector 1975-82, area dean St Marylebone 1978-82, prebendary St Paul's 1979-82; memb Gen Synod 1975-; Hon LLB Univ of Liverpool 1994; Style The Rt Rev the Lord Bishop of Chester; * Bishop's House, Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2JD (( 01244 350864, fax 01244 314187) WHO'S WHO 1977 - 1981 Rev. Prebendary Michael Alfred Baughen; Rector of All Souls,Langham Place,W1 since 1975 (Vicar of All Souls 1970 - 75); Area Dean of St Marylebone since 1978; a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral since 1979; born 7th June 1930; son of Alfred Henry and Clarice Adelaide Baughen; married 1956 Myrtle Newcomb Phillips; two sons one daughter Education: Bromley County Grammar School;University of London;Oak Hill Theology College BD (London). With Martins Bank 1946 - 48, 1950 - 51Army, Royal Signals 1948 - 50 Degree course and Ordination Training 1951-56; Curate: St Paul's, Hyson Green,Nottingham 1956 - 9; Reigate Parish Church 1959 - 61; Candidates Sec., Church Pastoral Aid Society 1961 - 4; Rector of Holy Trinity (Platt), Rusholme, Manchester 1964 - 70. Publications: Moses and the Venture of Faith 1979; Editor: Youth Praise 1966; Youth Praise II 1969; Psalm Praise 1973 Recreations:music, railways, touring Address: 12 Weymouth Street, W1N 3FB
Information taken from People of Today 1995. @ 1995 Debrett's Peerage Ltd. QC (1990); s of Prof E C Baughan, CBE, and Mrs E C Baughan; b 8 Feb 1944; Educ Eton, Balliol Coll Oxford (scholar, BA); Career called to the Bar Inner Temple 1967 (Profumo scholar, Philip Teichman scholar, maj scholar); prosecuting counsel DTI 1983-90, recorder 1985-; Style Julian Baughan, Esq, QC; * 13 Kings Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4Y 7EN (( 0171 353 7204)
Information taken from People of Today 1995. @ 1995 Debrett's Peerage Ltd. s of Prof Edward Christopher Baughan, CBE, and Jacqueline Fors, née Hodge (d 1986); b 25 April 1942; Educ Westminster; m 1975, Moira Elizabeth, da of Percy Reginald Levy, MBE; 2 s (James b 1977, Nicholas b 1979); Career N M Rothschild & Sons 1959-66; Lazard Brothers & Co Ltd: joined 1966, dir 1979-86, md 1986-; non-exec dir: Goode Durrant plc 1987-, Scapa Group plc 1994-; memb: Bd of Govrs Westminster Sch 1980-, Slrs Disciplinary Tbnl 1990-; Clubs Brooks's; Style Michael C Baughan, Esq; * Lazard Brothers & Co Ltd, 21 Moorfields, London EC2P 2HT Gentleman's Magazine -Feb 1794 Obituary of considerable persons;with Biographical Anecdotes hatter,of Bell Yard,opposite the Monument 25th May 1787 Copy of Court Roll Manor of Keymer, Sussex Adminission of Josiah Baughan of Fish Street, London, hatmaker, on the surrender of Cornelius Baker. The Northlands or Bowders’ in Balcombe,Sussex - about 30 acres. Copy and covenant of even date. 44,252 £370 from Josiah for property 44,253 £740 to Josiah for property 44,561-3 1793 Deeds concerning messuage in Rotherhithe, co Surrey, held of the manor of Keymer, in the matter of the bankruptcy of Josiah Baughan and Richard Guyer. 44,562 20th July 1793 referred to messuage in Balcombe as well as Rotherhithe, Surrey 44,563 30th March 1793 : Bankruptcy 12th March 1793 - owed in excess of £100
aviator Nier, F.M. Pilot who found gold in the jungle.
He was generally known as Harry Baughan. His father worked for the Great Western Railways (GWR).In World War 1 he was invalided out about 1917.The 1st cycle car was built in 1919 and registered April 26th 1920 Baughan Motors,Tyburn Lane, Harrow. He possibly moved to Stroud in 1921 63 motorcycles were built between 1924/5 and 1937. In 1937 he moved from Lower St, Stroud to Lansdowne,Stroud. Harry was ACU secretary for over 50 years (he was also president). The factory was sold about 20 years ago (mid 1960s). It is believed that he worked on the jet engine for Gloucester Aircraft. He worked for Standard Aircraft which became DeHavilands. He also received the British Empire Medal. of Leominster was the son of Edward Bangham who was bailiff of Leominster 1672, 1689, 1695 and d 1712, aged 53, and was himself Bailiff 1713, 1723. He was Deputy Auditor of the Imprest to his Colleague Edward Harley till his death 1735, and afterwards to his successors in the Auditorship William Benson and Hon. Lewis Watson (created Lord Sondes) Sept 1735 till his death 6 July 1760 He left a Charity of £1 a year to 10 poor widows of Leominster, secured on the old Waterloo Hotel, and having boughton Stocktonbury from Rich Blytheway left it to his son in law Rt Hon Thomas Harley. WHO WAS WHO 1897 - 1915 CB (Companion of the Bath);created 1882;born 15/12/1834; youngest son of John Henry Baughan;married Mary only daughter of Henry Taylor 1859; Education;private. Entered Transport Department of Admiralty 1854;Assistant Director of Transport 1880 - 95 (retired). Decorated for work in the Department during Egyptian War of 1882.Address : 1 Acacia Gardens,NW. died 10/03/1908
William Baffin ( - 1622) DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY BAFFIN, WILLIAM (d. 1622), navigator and discoverer, was most probably a native of London, but nothing is known of his early life. The earliest mention of him is in 1612, as pilot of the Patience, fitted out at Hull by James Hall, for a voyage of discovery to Greenland. Hall was a Yorkshireman, as was Andrew Barker, master of the Patience's consort. the Heartsease; but four merchants of London - Sir Thomas Smythe (most commonly misspelt Smith), Sir James Lancaster, Sir William Cockayne, and Mr. Ball - had a large and principal share in the adventure and it is conjectured that Baffin may have been appointed at their instance. The expedition left the Humber on 22 April, and examined the west coast of Greenland, as far as 67° N.; but, Hall having been killed in an affray with the natives, the ships returned to England under the command of Barker. The account of the voyage was written by Baffin, part of which only, as published by Purchas, has been preserved; another account, written by John Gatonby, one of the quartermasters, is in Churchill's ‘Collection of Voyages,’ vi. 241. On his return from Greenland, Baffin entered the service of the Muscovy Company, which had for some years past sent their ships to catch whales near Spitzbergen. They had just obtained a charter, pretending to give them the exclusive right of this fishery; and authorised by it had, in 1612, been sufficiently strong to drive away all foreigners. In 1613 they again sent out a fleet of seven ships, under the command of Captain Benjamin Joseph, in the Tiger, with William Baffin as chief pilot. They found seventeen foreign ships, Dutchmen, Dunkirkers, and Biscayans, already on the Spitzbergen coast; these all submitted to the English claim without resistance; most of them were ordered away, a few only being allowed to fish on payment of half their take to the English ships, which returned safely in September with full cargoes. The narrative of this voyage, written by Baffin, has been preserved in Purchas; another account, by Robert Fotherby, one of the party, is printed from the original manuscript in ‘Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society’ (1860), iv, 285. The following year, 1614, Baffin served again in the Spitzbergen fishery with Captain Joseph, and in company with Fotherby, whose narrative of the voyage is given by Purchas. The two, leaving their ship, provisioned two boats and persistently pushed along the north coast to the eastward, as far as Hinlopen Strait; but the year was very unfavourable, the ice coming close down to the coast during the greater part of the season. Baffin returned to London on 4 Oct., and the next year took service with the company for the discovery of a north-west passage, the directors of which were Sir Thormas Smythe, Sir Dudley Digges, and John Wolstenholme; he was appointed pilot of the Discovery, commanded by Captain Robert Bylot. The account of this voyage, written by Baffin was printed very incorrectly by Purchas; the original manuscript, with map, is in the British Museum (Add.MSS. 12,206), and was edited for the Hakluyt Society in l849 (RUNDALL, Naratives of Voyages towards the North-west). As pilot of the Discovery in 1615, Baffin carefully examined Hudson Strait and the eastern coast of Southampton Island, with such accuracy that his latitudes and his notes on the tides are in remarkable agreement with the more rigid observations of the present century. They passed up Fox Channel, beyond Cape Comfort but finding the land heading them, and, he says, ‘very thick pestered with ice, and the further we proceeded the more ice and shoaler water, with small show of any tide, we soon resolved there could be no passage in this place, and presently we bore up the helm and turned the ship's head to the southward (13 July). The land which we saw bear north and north-east was about nine or ten leagues from us; and, surely, without any question, this is the bottom of the bay on the west side; but how far it runneth more eastward is yet uncertain.' In August 1821, Captain Parry, with better fortune, repeated Baffin’s observations; he confirmed the remark as to the 'small show of any tide,' and he saw also the land to the north-east; but he found this to be an island, to which he gave the appropriate name of Baffin’s Island, and succeeded in passing away beyond (Voyages of Fury and Heela, 1824, p. 33). The Discovery anchored in Plymouth Sound on 8 Sept.; and Baffin, summing up the results of the voyage, says that 'doubtless there is a passage; but within this strait, which is called Hudson’s Strait, I am doubtful, supposing the contrary … and my judgment is if any passage within Resolution Island, it is but some creek or inlet, but the main will be up Fretum Davis.’ Acting on this opinion in the next year, 1616, also in the Discovery, with Captain Bylot, he passed up Davis Strait, and pushing to the north as far as 78° N., discovered and named Smith's Sound (in which the false spelling has become a geographical fact), Lancaster Sound, Jones Sound, Wolstenholme Sound, Sir Dudley Digges Cape, with many others, and charted the whole in a manner which we have warrant to suppose was fairly accurate according to the nautical science of the day. Unfortunately, the map and the journal, as well as the narrative, were handed over to Purchas who published the narrative alone, and that probably in a garbled and imperefct form, considering the reproduction of the chart and of the journal too costly an undertaking. And, so far as is known, neither the one nor the other has ever been seen since, though Mr Markham offers the very plausible conjecture that the map published by Luke Foxe in l635 (North-West Fox, &c) may have been in this part, copied from the lost map of Baffin. It does not mark all Baffin’s names, but it does represent the bay as something like the reality, and closed, as it is described by Baffin. Baffin’s conclusion, stated in his report to Sir John Wolstenholme is briefly: 'There is no passage, nor hope of passage, in the north of Davis Strait, we having coasted all or nearly all the circumference thereof, and find it to be no other than a great bay.' The want of the original map, however, permitted very wild statements as to the shape and size of Baffin’s Bay to grow up, so that in course of time it came to be doubted whether the whole story was not a fable; and in later maps the distorted representation of Baffin’s most important discoveries was omitted altogether as a mere fancy, till, in 1818, Captain Ross rediscovered them, and without difficulty identified the localities which Baffin had described and named (Voyages in H.M. ships Isabel1a and Alexander (4to, 1819), 140,146). Baffin had expressed an opinion against the existence of a north-west passage; but his imagination would not be convinced, and suggested that better fortune might attend an expedition on the other side, starting from the neighbourhood of Japan. In some such hope, though quite indefinite, he obtained an appointment as master’s mate in the Anne Royal, a large ship belonging to the East India Company and commanded by Captain Andrew Shilling. This was one of the fleet which sailed from the Downs on 5 March 1616-7, and arrived at Surat in the following September. Captain ShiIling was then directed to proceed into the Red Sea for settling an English trade in those parts; and arrived off Mocha on 13 April 1618. The Anne Royal remained in the Red Sea for about four months, during which time Baffin was busily employed in surveying and in charting his observations; and so also, when, later in the year the ship went into the Persian Gulf. In February the Anne Royal left India homeward bound, and arrived in the Thames in September 1619. A minute of the court of directors, dated l Oct., orders 'William Baffin, a masters mate in the Anne, to have a gratuity for his pains and good art in drawing out certain plots of the coast of Persia and the Red Sea, which are judged to have been very well and artificially performed; some to be drawn out by Adam Bowen, for the benefit of such as shall be employed in those parts' (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, East Indies, 1617-21, 257). Early the next year Captain Shilling, in the London, a new ship, again sailed for the East Indies in command of a company's fleet of four ships, and Baffin accompanied him as master. They arrived at Surat on 9 Nov. 1620, and having learned that a combined force of two Portuguese and two Dutch ships, making common cause against the English, were waiting at the entrance of the Persian Gulf to attack such of their ships as came that way, they sailed at once to look and anticipate them. On 16 Dec. the two fleets, equal in point of numbers, met and engaged. They fought for nine hours, and separated to repair damages. Twelve days later they met again, Captain Swan, of the English ship Roebuck, whose journal is given by Purchas (the original manuscript of which is in the India Office) says: 'Our broadsides were brought up, and the good ordnance from our whole fleet played so fast upon them that, doubtless, if the knowledge in our people had been less answerable to their willing minds and ready resolutions not one of the galleons1 unless their sides were impenetrable, had escaped us.’ It was, perhaps, not only the want of knowledge but the imperfections of the guns, of the powder and of the shot, that rendered it possible for ships to fire at each other all day without any decided result. On this occasion, however, some damage was done, and towards evening the enemy towed their ships off, and were not pursued. Captain Shilling was mortally wounded, and died on 6 Jan. 1620-1; Captain Blyth succeeded to the command, but the change made no difference to Baffin, who continued master of the London, and the fleet presently returned to Surat. In the following year the English in India agreed to assist the Shah of Persia in driving the Portuguese out of Ormuz, a place which, in former ages, had been the emporium of the East, the wonder and admiration of the world; and though in the hands of the Portuguese, and since the opening of the route round the Cape of Good Hope, its wealth and importance had declined, it was still extremely rich. The Shah had long regarded the Portuguese possession with jealousy, and had coveted the accumulated treasures, greater in repute than in fact, and now hoped, with the help of the English, to achieve his desire. The attack began with the reduction of Kishm, an adjacent island, on which Ormuz as largely dependent for water; and here, on 23 Jan.1621-2, Baffin whilst taking the angles of the castle wall, in order to measure its height and distance, received his death-wound. According to the account given by Purchas, ‘he received a shot from the castle into his belly, wherewith he gave three leaps, and died immediately.’ His death made little difference to the result of the siege; Kishm surrendered on 1 Feb., and Ormuz also, after a stout defence on 23 April 1622. Baffin appears to have left no surviving children; but his widow preferred a claim for some money which she asserted belonged to her husband, in compensation for which she eventually received 500l. She is described as then, in 1628, a woman advanced in years and deaf, and as having married again. Amongst early navigators Baffin takes a high place as one of the first who endeavoured to determine longitude at sea by astronomical observations. In his first recorded voyage to Greenland (8 July 1612) he describes his attempt to determine the longitude by observing the time of the moon's culmination; and in his voyage to Hudson’s Bay (21 June 1615) he has recorded by the lunar distance of the sun. The measurements were of necessity too rude to give results even approximately correct, but that was the fault of the instruments; and though the observation led to no immediate improvement, the date is noteworthy as that of the first lunar observation taken at sea. [ The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-22, edited, with notes and an introduction, by Clements R Markham, C.B., F.R.S. (1881), for the Hakluyt Society. Mr Markham’s Introduction embodies the result of much laborious research, and it is scarcely to be hoped that any further evidence as to Baffin’s origin and early life can now be discovered.] J.K.L. American Football player and coach. See
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