John Thomas (Thomas) Baines (1820–75)

Artist and explorer. Official war artist to the British forces in the Cape Frontier War, 1851–2. Joined Augustus Gregory’s expedition to north-west Australia, 1855. Storekeeper and artist to David Livingtone’s expedition to the Zambezi, 1858. Joined James Chapman’s expedition to the Victoria Falls, 1861; later led his own expedition to southern Africa, and continued to travel there until his death from dysentery.