| Authorised form of name | Baines; Sir; Thomas (c1622 - 1680); physician |
| Other forms of surname | Baynes |
| Dates | c 1622 - 1680 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Whaddon, Cambridgeshire, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | c 1622 |
| Place of death | Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [Turkey], Europe |
| Date of death | 5 September 1680 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
English cemetery, Constantinople; removed to the chapel of Christ's College Cambridge, England, Europe (where he shares a vault with Sir John Finch) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Bishop's Stortford School; Christ's College, Cambridge (BA 1643; MA 1649); MD (Padua, incorporated at Cambridge 1661)
Career:
Travelled abroad with Sir John Finch (1651); Professor of Music at Gresham College (1661-1680); Physician to British Embassy at Florence (1664-1670) and at Constantinople (1672-1680); with John Finch (FRS 1663) jointly founded two fellowships and two scholarships at Christ's College, Cambridge with a contribution of £2,000 each
Honours:
Kt 1672
Memberships:
Extraordinary FCP (1661)
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| Membership category | Original Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/05/1663 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Library Committee (1661) ; Committee for examining the generation of insects (1661) |
| Other Royal Society activity | Tasked with enquiries into poisons while in Italy (1661); Acted as a correspondent to the Society and its interests while abroad (1662); Presented Cardinal Leopoldo de'Medici with the history of the Royal Society (1668) |
| Relationships | Parents: Richard Baines |
| OtherInfo | From his time at Cambridge under the tutelage of Henry More, Baine's biography overlaps substantially with that of his lifelong friend and close companion, Sir John Finch. While he qualified as a physician and was a member of the Royal College of Physicians, he did not practice as a physician, in particular during his tenure as Gresham College's professor for music. However, he was regularly consulted by family and peers in regards to medical matters. He did not publish any of his works, some of which exist as papers and manuscripts within the Finch family archive. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Munk's Roll; Venn; ODNB [Sir John Finch]
References:
Maddison, R E W. 1959. 'The Accompt of William Balle from 28 November 1660 to 11 September 1663', in Notes and Records, vol. 14, pp. 174-183
Notes:
The election date is Baines' election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/21592774 |
| Code | NA3187 |