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BAINES, EDWARD (1774-1848)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 223 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BAINES, EDWARD (1774-1848) , English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. He was educated at the grammar schools of Hawkshead and Preston, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a prin'er in the latter town. After remaining there four years and a half he removed to Leeds, finished his apprentice-ship, and at once started in business for himself. He was alwaysa most assiduous student, and quickly became known as a man of great practical shrewdness and ability, who took a keen
interest
  in political and social movements. His political opinions led him to sympathize with nonconformity and he soon joined the Independents. In 18or the assistance of party friends enabled him to buy the Leeds Mercury. Provincial
newspapers
  did not at that time possess much influence; it was no part of the editor's duty to supply what are now called "leading articles," and the system of reporting was defective. In both respects Baines made a complete change in the Mercury. His able political articles gradually made the
paper
  the organ of Liberal
opinion
  in Leeds, and the connexion of the Baines family with the
paper
  made their influence powerful for many years in this direction. Baines soon began to take a prominent part in politics; he was an ardent advocate of parliamentary reform, and it was mainly by his influence that Macaulay was returned for Leeds in 1832; and in 1834 he succeeded Macaulay as member. He was re-elected in 1835 and 1837, but resigned in 1841. In parliament he supported the Liberal party, but with independent views. Like his son Edward after him, he strongly advocated the separation of church and state, and opposed government interference in national education. His letters to Lord John Russell on the latter question (1846) had a powerful influence in deter-mining the action of the government. He died in 1848. His best-known writings are: The History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of
York
 ; History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of
Lancaster
 ; History of the County Palatine and Duchy of
Lancaster
 . He was also the author of a History of the Wars of Napoleon, which was continued under the title of A History of the Reign of George III.
His Life (1861) has been written by his son, Sir Edward Baines (1800-18.9o), who was editor and afterwards proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, M.P. for Leeds (1859-1874), and was knighted in 1880; his History of the
Cotton
  Manufacture (1835) was long a standard authority. An elder son, Matthew Talbot, Baines (1799-1860), went to the bar, and became recorder of Hull (1837). He became M.P. for Hull in 1847, and in 1849 president of the Poor Law Board. In 1852 he was returned for Leeds, and again became president of the Poor Law Board (till 1855). In 1856 he entered the cabinet as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.


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