John Thomas (Thomas) Baines
1820–75
Artist and explorer. Official war artist to the British forces in the Cape Frontier War, 1851–2. Joined Augustus Gregory’s expedition to north-west Australia, 1855. Storekeeper and artist to David Livingtone’s expedition to the Zambezi, 1858. Joined James Chapman’s expedition to the Victoria Falls, 1861; later led his own expedition to southern Africa, and continued to travel there until his death from dysentery.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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