William Baxter (1861–1934)

Chemist and local historian. Son of William Walmisley Baxter, chemist, of Bromley, and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth. Took over his father’s chemist shop in 1897, but sold it to Lipton’s Tea Company in 1907. Contributed to and wrote extensive notes on E. L. S. Horsburgh’s Bromley, Kent (1929).