Edmund John Baillie FRHS FLS (4 May 1851 – 18 October 1897) was a Welsh businessman, horticulturalist and vegetarianism activist.
Edmund J. Baillie | |
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 Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898) | |
| Born | Edmund John Baillie 4 May 1851 Hawarden, England |
| Died | 18 October 1897 (aged 46) Chester, England |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, horticulturalist, activist |
| Awards | Kingsley Memorial Medal |
Biography
editEdmund John Baillie was born in Hawarden on 4 May 1851.[1] As a young man, Baillie worked at the firm F. and A. Dickson and Sons of Eastgate, Chester, where he eventually became its adviser and partner.[2] On the amalgamation of Dickson's two firms, he became deputy Chairman of Dicksons, Limited.[3]
Baillie was a friend of John Ruskin and was President of the John Ruskin Society in Liverpool.[3][4] He was honorary secretary and treasurer of the Grosvenor Museum at Chester and a member of the Chester Society of Natural Science. He was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society[3] and was later a Fellow.[5] He was elected for the Linnean Society of London on 21 June 1878 and became a Fellow in 1883.[3] Baillie specialised in fruit trees.[4] He also corresponded with Walt Whitman.[4][6]
Baille contributed to the Gardener's Magazine, Journal of Botany, Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and the Proceedings of the Linnean Society.[1] For his services to natural science he was awarded the Kingsley Memorial Medal.[2] Baillie was a Presbyterian and was church secretary at the English Presbyterian Church of Wales, Chester for many years.[2] He was a spiritualist and member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.[7]
Vegetarianism
editBaillie was a vegetarian. He joined the Vegetarian Society in 1878 and later served as a Vice-President.[8] Baillie authored papers in defence of vegetarianism that were read at conferences such as the International Vegetarian Congress.[2][9]
Selected publications
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Desmond, Ray. (1994). Dictionary of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturalists. Taylor & Francis. p. 34. ISBN 0-85066-843-3
- ^ a b c d "Death of Mr. E. J. Baillie". The Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales (October 20, 1897). p. 5
- ^ a b c d "Edmund John Baillie". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 110: 34. 1898.
- ^ a b c "Edmund J. Baillie to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1890". The Walt Whitman Archive. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 7. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
- ^ "Edmund J. Baillie to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1891". The Walt Whitman Archive. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Decease of Mr. Edmund J. Baillie" (PDF). Light. 17 (876): 517. 1897.
- ^ Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 183
- ^ "The International Vegetarian Congress". International Vegetarian Union. Retrieved 20 November 2021.