Baikie, William Balfour
(1825–1864)
- Stanley Lane-Poole
- , revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Extract
Baikie, William Balfour (1825–1864), traveller and surgeon, eldest son of Captain John Baikie RN, was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, on 27 August 1825 and educated privately and at the grammar school there. After taking his degree in medicine at Edinburgh, he entered the ...