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Bagley, B. D. (Burton Dillon), 1858-1933

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  • 1858-1933

Burton Dillon Bagley was born on September 24, 1858, in Newark, Wayne County, New York.

He served as President of the Christian Literature Company in New York City in the late 1800s. He authored the book “Comparative outlines, employe [sic] representative plans: of the Bethlehem Steel Co., the International Harvester Co., the Standard Oil Co., New Jersey, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., the Midvale Steel Co., the Standard Oil Co., Indiana, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., prepared for the Underwriters ... “(1919).

In 1884, he married Mary Arnold (1864–1955). He died on July 17, 1933, in Rochester, New York.

Bagnell, Kenneth, 1934-

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  • Person
  • 1934-2022

Kenneth Sidney Bagnell was born on September 9, 1934, in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

He was a journalist, broadcaster, author, and retired United Church of Canada minister. He studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (B.A. in Psychology) and Pine Hill Divinity Hall, now the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax (B.D.). It was at Mount Allison that his interest in broadcasting and journalism began. He wrote the books “The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada” (1980) and “Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians” (1989).

In 1958, he married Barbara Robar. He died on February 15, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario.

Bagot, Charles, 1781-1843

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  • Person
  • 1781-1843

British statesman who served as Governor General of British North America from 1841 until his death in 1843.

Bagster, Robert, 1847-1924

  • Person
  • 1847-1924

Robert Bagster was born in 1847 in England.

He was a managing director and chairman of the London publishing firm Samuel Bagster & Sons Limited, well-known all over the world as publisher of the Bible. In 1875, he published the daily devotional scripture “Daily Light on the Daily Path,” which was created by his father Jonathan Bagster, the son of the publisher’s founder Samuel Bagster (1772-1851), for their family's daily devotion. In 1912, Bagster wrote a history of the House of Bagster, which was full of valuable family information. The book was published to commemorate the centenary of the publication of the First Pocket Reference Bible. During the First World War, he joined the National Guard and served. Bagster was passionate about music and was one of the chief organizers and Bass superintend of the Handel Festival Choir, of which he was a member for over fifty years. He also served as a Secretary of the British Archaeological Association and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Zoological Society.

He died in October 1924, in Kingston, Surrey, England.

Baguley, Leslie

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  • Person
  • 1915-1986

British songwriter, composer and pianist Les Baguley was born in Bristol, the younger son of Walter James Baguley and Minnie Nora Langbridge. He wrote songs in the late 1940s, including “I’m Happy Right Here” (1947) and “Nice to Know You Care” (1949). In the 1950s he collaborated with Norman Newell for “The Story of Joe” and other songs, and they appeared together at the London Palladium. He also partnered with Danny Arnold for a variety act called “Arnold and McGooley.” He arranged songs for popular singer Dorothy Squires and acted as her accompanist; he also went with her on some tours. In 1956, under the name Emma Jane, Squires recorded “Come home to my arms,” a song he wrote for her. Many of his songs were recorded in French, some in collaboration with Michel Rivgauche; John Williams sang the French version of his “Our Concerto” entitled “Un Jour On M’avait Dit” in 1958. In 1966 he toured with “The Big Star Show” as pianist for the Diamond Twins. In London in the 1980s he sometimes played the piano at Macready’s Actors’ Club in Covent Garden, and he regularly played at the Steering Wheel Club in Curzon Street. For Sunday lunches at the Bull Hotel in Wrotham, Kent, he was at the piano in his signature Stetson hat, sometimes with Keith Grant on the drums.

Baiandurov, B. I.

  • Person
  • 1900-1948

Boris Ivanovich Baiandurov was born on October 7, 1900, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
 
He pursued his education in physics, mathematics, and medicine at Azerbaijan University in Baku from 1921 to 1925. In 1925, he moved to Moscow and later to Tomsk, where he worked at the Department of Physiology of Tomsk State University. Baiandurov became the head of the department in 1931, and also served as the head of the Department of Normal Physiology of the Tomsk Medical Institute (TMI), becoming its dean in 1936. He was the head of the Department of Physiology at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute from 1937 to 1938, and a professor at the Tomsk Dental Institute from 1937 to 1942. From 1939 to 1948, he worked at the Department of Anatomy and Human Physiology of the Tomsk Pedagogical Institute.
 
He was married to Maria Aleksandrovna Molodtsova (1901-1978), who was the head of the dental course at TMI and an Honored Doctor of the RSFSR in 1962. He died on August 20, 1948, in Tomsk.

Bailey, A. A. (Allan Archibald), 1910-1967

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  • Person
  • 1910-1967

Dr. Allan Archibald Bailey was born on March 22, 1910, in Strathcona, Alberta.

He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto in 1935 and went on to complete postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota, earning a Master of Science in Neurology and Psychiatry in 1940. In 1938, he married Dr. Mary Marshall. During World War II, Dr. Bailey served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a neuropsychiatry specialist. After the war, Dr. Bailey worked in Montreal and then at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he became head of the Section of Neurology. He joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1954 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Head of Neurology and was promoted to full Professor in 1957. Dr. Bailey was also President of the Canadian Neurological Society from 1957 to 1958. In 1962, Dr. Bailey was promoted to head of the Department of Medicine at the College of Medicine and Chief of the Department of Medicine at University Hospital. Dr. Bailey and his wife helped found the Unitarian Fellowship of Saskatoon.

He died on October 3, 1967, in Olmsted, Minnesota.

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