William Balfour Baikie FSA Scot (27 August 1825 – 12 December 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist. Baikie was born at Kirkwall,...
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Robert Baikie (died 1817), Scottish politician from Orkney, Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland 1780-81 William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864)...
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who murdered three members of Jennifer Hudson's family in 2008 William Balfour Baikie (1825–1864), Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist This...
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Péyi" in creole) is used to talk about the Béké of Guadeloupe. William Balfour Baikie explored most of south east Nigeria and parts of cross rivers and...
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Balfour of Burleigh Baron Balfour of Glenawley Baron Kinross William Balfour Baikie This page lists people with the surname Balfour. If an internal link intending...
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lectured in Great Britain about African topics, and in 1857 left with William Balfour Baikie for an expedition of the Niger River. Later he accompanied John...
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mid-1800s". Jim Baikie (1940–2017), Scottish comics artist, who is best known for his work with Alan Moore on Skizz William Balfour Baikie (1825–1864), explorer...
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1851 to 1857. In 1857, he joined an expedition to Niger led by William Balfour Baikie (1825–1864), a naturalist and philologist from Scotland, who was...
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to the Arctic species Primula stricta and Primula scandinavica. William Balfour Baikie, explorer, naturalist and philologist (Kirkwall) Thomas Clouston...
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names of hunters were recorded in Ajami and Latin script. When Dr William Balfour Baikie arrived at Lokoja first in 1854 and later in 1857, he played a role...
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number of specimens sent to him by Scottish explorer and naturalist William Balfour Baikie, who had collected the species from the banks of the Niger River...
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can grow in near-monodominant stands. The genus is named after William Balfour Baikie (1824-1864), Scottish explorer of the Niger River. Baikiaea Benth...
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active part in promoting the British exploration of the river, sent William Balfour Baikie, who was successful in dealing with the locals and in 1857 became...
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Kenya; known simply as Doctor Arthur to generations of Africans William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), naturalist, philologist and surgeon on the 1854 Niger...
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Scouting for Boys Élisabeth Badinter (born 1944, France, Ph/H) William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864, Scotland/Nigeria, Nh/L) Alice Bailey (1880–1949, England/US...
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Greenland for him. Mount Traill in Nigeria was named after him by William Balfour Baikie. In 1812 he first suggested creation of a Royal Society of Liverpool...
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19th century included Sir John Richardson, Thomas Henry Huxley and William Balfour Baikie, while Sir Edward Parry served as captain-superintendent for a time...
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Igbo. 1835 Africanus Horton is born to Igbo ex-slaves in Sierra Leone 1855 William Balfour Baikie a Scottish naval physician, reaches Niger Igboland....
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in Berlin in 1852. Bleek was appointed official linguist to Dr William Balfour Baikie's Niger Tshadda Expedition in 1854. Ill-health (a tropical fever)...
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cathedral contains memorials to prominent Orcadians including explorers William Balfour Baikie and Dr John Rae, writers Eric Linklater, George Mackay Brown and...
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featuring 300 Igbo words in five different dialects. In the same year, William Balfour Baikie included a short Igbo vocabulary in his work, Narrative of an Exploring...
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Henry Smeathman, likewise in Nigeria (in use among the Nupe) by William Balfour Baikie, in Gabon by Marie-Théophile Griffon du Bellay and in West Tropical...
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William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet, humorist and writer William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), naturalist and philologist Lady Grizel Baillie (1665–1746)...
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first attempt at classifying the Efik language was by Dr. William Balfour Baikie in 1854. Dr Baikie had stated, "All the coast dialects from One to Old Kalabar...
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Africa. Vol. 3 (1st ed.). London: International African Institute. Baikie, William Balfour (1856). Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwóra and...
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buried on Fernando Po. His place on the expedition was taken by William Balfour Baikie. His widow, Mrs. Ellen Beecroft, later received a pension in the...
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1836, he was chosen by William Jackson Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to take part in William Balfour Baikie's expedition to West Africa...
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Other exhibits include ethnographic items collected by Orcadians, William Balfour Baikie and Jack Renton, and items from James Cook's third voyage which...
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William de Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort and Cecilia Bisset, and is known to have had the following issue; William (d. 1330), who left a son, William...
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enemies of Bonny. In light of the above, many writers including William Balfour Baikie concluded that the purported treaty was not only an illusion but...
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