Author: Baynes, Edward Dacres
Biography:
BAYNES, Edward Dacres (1792-1864: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 30 Mar. 1792 at All Saints, Southampton, the eldest of three sons of Thomas Baynes, a commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife Edith Lovibond Collins (born Stanway). A younger brother was Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes (1796-1869). No public record has been found for Edith Baynes’s death but in 1813 Thomas Baynes married Augusta Caroline Compton. On his own death in 1818 he left a complicated will which named Edward as one of the administrators and was still lumbering through probate in 1862. Little is known about Edward Baynes’s education but he attended Blundell’s School (1804-06) and later seems to have tried his hand at a literary career, writing a farce, Love and Laudanum, or, The Sleeping Dose (1818); publishing the two books of verse listed in the database; and translating Ovid’s epistles (one volume of a projected three was issued in 1812 and went to a second edition in 1818). At the time he was a lieutenant in the Invalid Battalion of the Royal Artillery (1811-19). In 1822 he went to Malta as a government official; from there he travelled to the Caribbean where he was a stipendiary magistrate in Jamaica before being appointed president of Monserrat in 1841. No record of a marriage has been found. He died in Antigua on 5 Nov. 1863. His Annals of England, a Poem was published in 1847. (ancestry.co.uk 31 Jan. 2023; Howard A. Fergus, Gallery Monserrat [1996]; The Jurist 7 [1862]; SJC 5 Dec. 1863; List of the Officers of the Army [1832]; The Register of Blundell’s School [1904]) SR
Other Names:
- E. D. Baynes