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Authorised form of name	Baines; Sir; Thomas (c1622 - 1680); physician
Other forms of surname	Baynes
Dates	c1622 - 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)
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

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