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Thomas Spencer Baynes

1823–87

Editor and philosopher. Studied logic and metaphysics at Edinburgh University, 1845–9. Taught logic at the Philosophical Institution in Edinburgh. Editor of the Edinburgh Guardian, 1850. Professor of logic, metaphysics, and English literature at the University of St Andrews, 1864–87. General editor of the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1875–89).

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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