him ‘nobilis Anglus,’ and states that ‘ex testamento centum montium loca in pios usus reliquit, prout ex actis d. Michaelis Angeli Cesi notarij constat.’
He is the author of two excessively rare works, entitled: 1. ‘The Praise of Solitarinesse, Set down in the forme of a Dialogue, Wherein is conteyned a Discourse Philosophical of the lyfe Actiue and Contemplatiue. Imprinted at London by Francis Coldocke and Henry Bynneman, 1577. Qui nihil sperat, Nihil desperat,’ 4to. The dedication to the author's approved friend, Mr. Edward Dyer, is signed Roger Baynes. 2. ‘The Baynes of Aqvisgrane, The I. Part & I. Volume, intitvled Variety. Contayning Three Bookes, in the forme of Dialogues, vnder the Titles following, Viz. Profit, Pleasvre, Honovr. Furnished with diuers things no lesse delightfull then beneficiall to be knowne and obserued. Related by Rog. Baynes Gent. a long Exile out of England, not for any temporall respects. Qui nihil sperat nihil desperat. Printed at Augusta in Germany, M.DC.XVII.,’ 4to. A notice from the printer to the reader informs us that ‘this present Volume, and the rest that are to follow, though they have not come to the Presse till now, yet haue they byn written some yeares ago, in the tyme of the late Queene Elizabeth.’ Only the first book ‘Of Profit’ appears to have been printed.
[Diaries of the English College, Douay, 154, 155; Letters and Memorials of Cardinal Allen, 137, 221, 371, 375; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Gent. Mag. xciii. (i.) 217; Notes and Queries, 3rd series, vii. 443; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.]
BAYNHAM, JAMES (d. 1532), martyr. [See Bainham.]
BAYNING, first Baron. [See Townshend, Charles, 1728–1810.]
BAYNTON, Sir ANDREW (fl. 1540), scholar, was son and heir of Sir Edward Baynton, of Bromham-Baynton, Wilts, a favourite courtier of Henry VIII, vice-chamberlain to three of his queens, and a friend and patron of Latimer, some of the correspondence between them (circ. 1530) being printed in Foxe's Martyrs. Andrew, born in 1515–6, was placed by his father to study French under John Palsgrave, the court tutor, and wrote a prefatory letter to his master's book, ‘L'esclaircissement de la langue francaise’ (1530). About the same time he attended Knyvett on his embassy from Henry to the emperor. Succeeding his father (circ. 1544), he was returned to Parliament for Horsham 1547, Westbury 1553, Marlborough 1555, and Calne 1558–9.
[Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, p. 82; Foxe's Martyrs; Calendars of State Papers (Henry VIII); Hoare's Wilts (Downton, p. 7); Burke's History of the Commoners, vol. iv.; Return of Members of Parliament.]
BAYNTON, THOMAS (d. 1820), medical writer, was a surgeon at Bristol, where he served his apprenticeship with Mr. Smith, a physician of considerable eminence. He afterwards acquired a large practice of his own, and obtained a high reputation by discoveries in the curative part of his profession, especially in the treatment of ulcers and wounds. He published in 1797 ‘Descriptive Account of a New Method of treating Ulcers of the Leg,’ and in 1813 ‘An Account of a Successful Method of treating Diseases of the Spine.’ He died at Clifton on 31 Aug. 1820.
[Biog. Dict. of Living Authors (1816), pp. 17, 412; Gent. Mag. xc. pt. ii. 284; Brit. Mus. Catalogue.]
BAYNTUN, Sir HENRY WILLIAM (1766–1840), admiral, son of the consul-general at Algiers, entered the navy at an early age and was advanced to be a lieutenant on 15 April 1783. In that rank he served at the reduction of Martinique in March 1794, and was promoted by Sir John Jervis to the command of the Avenger sloop. After the capture of Guadeloupe he was posted into the Undaunted frigate on 4 May 1794. With only one short intermission, in 1796, he continued in the West Indies during the next ten years of active war and the short peace. On his return to England he was appointed to command the Leviathan, of 74 guns, and was sent to the Mediterranean to join Lord Nelson, then blockading Toulon. He had thus a share in the pursuit of the French fleet to the West Indies and back, and in the crowning glory of Trafalgar, where the Leviathan was closely engaged with, amongst others, the French flag-ship Bucentaur, the Santissima Trinidada, and the St. Augustin of 74 guns. At the funeral of Lord Nelson in January 1806 Captain Bayntun bore the guidon in the water procession from Greenwich Hospital. In June 1807 he was present with the squadron under Rear-admiral Murray which was sent to Buenos Ayres to co-operate with the army, till the general's incapacity compelled it to re-embark without advantage or even honour. Afterwards, in 1809, he commanded the Milford, 74 guns, and in 1811 was appointed to the command of the Royal Sovereign yacht. He had no further active service, and his public life may be summed up by saying that he became rear-admiral on
