Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker
1807–86
Educationalist and social reformer. Resided at Hardwicke Court, Gloucestershire. Officer in the Gloucestershire yeoman cavalry, 1835–65. Instrumental in the founding of the Social Science Congress and a leading figure in the reform school movement; established the Hardwicke Reform School in 1852. Author of an ornithological index (1835). Founding member of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, and first president, 1846–59.
Sources
CDEL
DNB
Gebhard trans. [1878], Modern English biography
Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club vols. 1–4.
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
