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in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, born in 

 Gloucestershire, England, in 1830; died in Tel 

 el Kebir, Egypt, Nov. 17, 1887. He was the 

 brother of Sir Samuel White Baker, the dis- 

 tinguished explorer, and entered the British 

 army as cornet in the Ceylon forces in 1848. 

 He served with distinction in the Kaffir War of 

 1852-'53, and in the Crimean War he led one 

 of the storming parties in the final assault in 

 the desperate battle of Tchernaya. In 1859 

 he was appointed colonel of the Tenth Hussars, 

 the regiment in which the Prince of Wales 

 was placed for military education. He was 

 present as a spectator in the A ustro- Prussian 

 and Franco-German Wars. In 1872 he made 

 an unsuccessful attempt to reach Khiva, and 

 this was made the subject of a hook called 

 " Clouds in the East," which added to his repu- 

 tation. In 1875 he was one of the most popu- 

 lar officers in the English army, when, by a 

 disgraceful escapade, for which he was cash- 

 iered and for a time imprisoned, he clouded 

 his future career. On the breaking out of the 

 Russo-Turkish War in 1877, he resolved to re- 

 trieve his reputation by gallant conduct, and 

 entered the Turkish service, where, after first 

 organizing the Ottoman gendarmerie, he was 

 appointed by Mehemet Ali to an important 

 command on the Lorn, where he was decorated 

 with the Osrnanieh for his bravery in storming 

 and capturing the heights of Yenikoi, with 

 only 200 foot and 50 cavalry, in the face of two 

 batteries of Russian guns and more than 8,000 

 troops. Toward the end of 1887 he was ap- 

 pointed to the command of a division in the 

 Balkans, and for the brilliant generalship in 

 covering the retreat of Chakir Pasha's army 

 on Adrianople and Constantinople, he received 

 the decoration of the Medjidyeh. He com- 

 manded half the second line of defense before 

 Constantinople, after the surrender of the 

 troops of the first line, and distinguished him- 

 self by his energy in constructing defensive 

 works. At the close of this campaign he car- 

 ried out various reforms in the gendarmerie of 

 Asia Minor. At the end of the Egyptian cam- 

 paign that followed the siege of Alexandria 

 Baker Pasha resigned his post as aide-de-camp 

 of the Sultan to accept the task of reorganizing 

 the Egyptian army. When he arrived at Cairo 

 the British authorities refused to allow him to 

 organize an army, and instead of that he was 

 given the task of creating a gendarmerie force. 

 Nevertheless, after the defeat of the Egyptian 

 forces under Hicks Pasha, during the insurrec- 

 tion of the Mahdi, he was the main support of 

 the Khedive's authority. In February, 1884, 

 with an army of 35,000 men, he met with dis- 

 astrous defeat at the hands of the Mahdi's 

 forces in the battle of El Teb, fifty miles south 

 of Suakim, near the Red Sea. In the second 

 battle at the same place he was severely 

 wounded. After this campaign he continued 

 to hold his commission in tlie Egyptian army 

 until his death. Numerous attempts were 

 made at various times by his friends to obtain 



his reinstatement in the English army, and 

 their efforts were about to be crowned with 

 success when his death occurred, hastened, it 

 is supposed, by chagrin and disappointment. 

 Besides the work already mentioned, Col. 

 Baker was the author of " Army Reform " 

 (London, 1869), and other military treatises, 

 including a history of the "War in Bulgaria." 



Baldwin, Professor, one of the sub-commis- 

 sioners appointed under the Irish land act, 

 died in Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 31, 1887. He 

 was manager of an agricultural establishment 

 at Glasnevin, maintained by the National 

 Board of Education, before his appointment on 

 the Land Commission. In this body he was 

 one of those who showed most sympathy for 

 the tenants. lie was an advocate of the policy 

 of creating a peasant proprietary, and of en- 

 couraging tillage instead of stock-raising, and 

 teaching improved methods of agriculture. 



Ballantine, William, an English lawyer, born 

 in London, England, Jan. 3, 1812; died in 

 Margate, England, Jan. 19, 1887. He was the 

 son of a police magistrate, and was called to 

 the bar on June 6, 1834. He achieved early 

 success in practice, and became a sergeant in 

 1856. He was appointed by the House of 

 Commons, in 1869, to conduct the legal pro- 

 ceedings against the Mayor of Cork, Mr. 

 O'Sullivan, for eulogizing the Fenian O Far- 

 rell, who had attempted to assassinate the 

 Duke of Edinburgh in Australia. He was re- 

 tained by the Tichborne claimant in his suit to 

 establish his title to the baronetcy in 1871, hut 

 in the midst of the proceedings threw up his 

 brief, perceiving the hopelessness of the case. 

 The cases with which his name is more closely 

 associated are the Muller murder-trial in 1864, 

 and the case of the Galkwar of Baroda, who 

 was tried for poisoning the British Resident ill 

 1875. Sergeant Ballantine was famous both 

 for his eloquence in addressing juries and for 

 his skill in the cross-examination of witnesses. 

 He was frequently retained in divorce cases. 

 In one famous suit of this character, when the 

 Prince of Wales took the stand, the sergeant 

 declined to cross-examine him. He retired 

 several years before his death. In 1882 he 

 wrote "Experiences of a Barrister's Life." 



Batbie, Anselm Polycarpe, a French jurist, born 

 in Seissan, France, May 31, 1828 ; died in Paris, 

 France, June 13, 1887. He was appointed 

 Auditor of the Council of State in 1849, and re- 

 ceived the degree of Doctor from the law fac- 

 ulty of Paris in 1850. After holding assistant 

 professorships at Dijon, Toulouse, and Paris, 

 he was appointed, in 1860, by the Minister of 

 Public Instruction, to visit the universities of 

 Belgium, Holland, and Germany, in order to 

 study the mode of giving instruction in public 

 and administrative law in those countries. In 

 1862 he became Professor of Administrative 

 Law in the University of Pnris. In February, 

 1871, he was elected senator for his native de- 

 partment of Gers, and voted with the Right 

 Center. He was the author of a number of 



