Sir William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton, KCMG, was born on September 6, 1844, in Sussex, England, the son of Admiral William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton and Lady Harriet Hamilton.
 
He was a Scottish civil servant who graduated from Harrow in 1863. He joined the Colonial Office in 1864 and rose to the rank of First-Class Clerk in 1879. Between 1886 and 1892, he served as Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland and the Secretary of State for the Colonies. He also served as Secretary to the Colonial Conference in 1887 and was Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office from 1896 to 1909, when he retired. He was also a qualified barrister and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1871. In 1884, Baillie-Hamilton published a novel titled "Mr. Montenello: A Romance of the Civil Service". He was also a keen sportsman in his youth and played for the Scottish side in the first football match against England in 1870. Baillie-Hamilton received several honors during his career. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1887 and as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1892. He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours. In 1901, he was appointed an Officer of Arms of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward VII. In 1911, the title was changed to Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod, a position he held until his death.
 
In 1871, he married Mary Aynscombe Mossop (1844-1919). He died on July 6, 1920, in Middlesex, England.

Orville Taylor Bailey was born on May 28, 1909, on a farm in Jewett, New York.
 
He was an American neuropathologist and educator. He entered Syracuse University at age 15 and graduated in 1928. He completed his medical studies at Albany Medical College (Union University) in 1932 and started training in pathology at the Peter Bent Brigham and Boston Children’s Hospitals in 1933. Bailey was appointed as an instructor in pathology at the Harvard Medical School and was elected a Junior Fellow in the elite Society of Fellows of Harvard University. In 1951, he left Boston and joined the University of Indiana as a Professor of Neuropathology, where he founded a Neuropathology Section and served for eight years. He then moved to Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute in 1959 as a Professor in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Neuropathology until he retired in 1977. Dr. Bailey was an active member of the American Association of Neuropathologists for 57 years, served as its president, and received its Distinguished Service Award in 1983. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology and the American Journal of Pathology.
 
He died unmarried on September 21, 1998, in Chicago, Illinois.

Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey was born on March 18, 1905, in Quebec City, Quebec.
 
He was an ethnohistorian, anthropologist, university builder and administrator, and among the first of Canada's "modernist" poets. Born into a family of professors at the University of New Brunswick, Bailey was naturally interested in science, geology, history, anthropology, and literature. He graduated from the University of New Brunswick (B.A., 1927) and the University of Toronto (M.A., 1929; Ph.D. in ethnohistory and aboriginal culture, 1934), where he was introduced to the poetry of T.S. Eliot. After graduating, Bailey worked as a reporter for the Toronto Mail and Empire. In 1934, he spent a year on a Royal Society of Canada fellowship studying at the London School of Economics, where he was introduced to "leftist politics" and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. From 1935 to 1938, he worked as assistant director and associate curator at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick. The President of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Jones offered to elect Bailey to head a history department if he could talk the province into granting the university sufficient funding. Dr. Bailey did so and held that position until 1969, during which time he not only oversaw the starting of the departments of anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and economics, but also laid the foundation of the provincial archives, and, as Honorary Librarian and Chief Executive Officer of the UNB Library (1946-59), was instrumental in directing and advising Lord Beaverbrook in the selection and purchase of approximately 50,000 books. In addition, he oversaw the construction, design, and funding for the new UNB library, and he served as Dean of Arts (1946-64) and Vice-President Academic (1965-69). Dr. Bailey was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951, received three honorary doctorates, was made the New Brunswick representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, and served on the first advisory board of the National Library of Canada, and the Governor General’s Literary Awards committee. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978 and received honorary membership in the Association of Canadian Archivists in 1989. UNB awarded him the title emeritus, and the City of Fredericton made him a freeman in 1984.

He wrote poetry from college through retirement. His books of poetry include Songs of the Saguenay (1927), Tao (1930), Border River (1952), Thanks for a Drowned Island (1973), and Miramichi Lightning: The Collected Poems of Alfred G. Bailey (1981).
 
 
In 1934, he married Jean Craig Hamilton (1906-1998). He died on April 21, 1997, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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.

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.

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.

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.