| Authorised form of name | Baillie; Matthew (1761 - 1823) |
| Dates | 1761 - 1823 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 27 October 1761 |
| Place of death | Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire |
| Date of death | 23 September 1823 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Parish church of Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Activity | Education:
Glasgow University; Balliol College, Oxford; AB (1786, Oxon); MB (1786, Oxon); MD (1789, Oxon)
Career:
Taught anatomy; Physician, St George's Hospital (1789); gave up lecturing and Physician's post to concentrate of medical practice, moving to Grosvenor Square; Physician Extraordinary to George III; wrote 'The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body', (London 1793)
Memberships:
FCP (1790)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1790 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Croonian 1791 |
| Relationships | Son of Rev James Baillie and Dorothea, sister of William and John Hunter (anatomists), ie he was their nephew. William bequeathed him £5,000, his house in Great Windmill Street, and use of his museum for 30 years; married (5 May 1791) Sophia Denman, sister of Thomas Denman (FRS 1833); brother of Joanna Baillie, poet |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/47543063 |
| Code | NA5910 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000185 | Baillie, Mathew | nd |
| EC/1790/09 | Baillie, Matthew: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| L&P/9/213 | Paper, 'Of the immediate causes of muscular action [Croonian Lecture, November 1791]' by Matthew Baillie | 1791 |
| L&P/9/90 | Paper, 'An account of a remarkable transposition of the viscera' by Matthew Baillie | 1788 |
| L&P/9/90/1 | Letter, 'An account of a remarkable transposition of the viscera' from Matthew Baillie to John Hunter | 1788 |
| L&P/9/118 | Letter, 'An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium' from Matthew Baillie to John Hunter | 1788 |
| IM/005346 | Baillie, Matthew | 1993 |
| PT/16/28 | Paper, 'An account of the effect of mercurial vapours on the crew of His Majesty's Ship Triumph in the year 1810' by William Burnett | [1823] |