Thomas Baines ( c1622 - 1680 )

Birth: Whaddon, Cambridgeshire, England, Europe (c. 1622) Death: Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [Turkey], Europe (5 September 1680) Burial Place: English cemetery, Constantinople; removed to the chapel of Christ's College Cambridge, England, Europe (where he shares a vault with Sir John Finch) Occupation: Physician Education: Bishop's Stortford School; Christ's College, Cambridge (BA 1643; MA 1649); MD (Padua, incorporated at Cambridge 1661) Career: Travelled abroad with Sir John Finch (1651); Professor of Music at Gresham College (1661-1680); Physician to British Embassy at Florence (1664-1670) and at Constantinople (1672-1680); with John Finch (FRS 1663) jointly founded two fellowships and two scholarships at Christ's College, Cambridge with a contribution of £2,000 each Honours: Kt 1672 Memberships: Extraordinary FCP (1661) Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 20/05/1663 Committee appointments include: Library Committee (1661) Committee for examining the generation of insects (1661) Other RSActivity: Tasked with enquiries into poisons while in Italy (1661); Acted as a correspondent to the Society and its interests while abroad (1662); Presented Cardinal Leopoldo de'Medici with the history of the Royal Society (1668).