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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.