Baikie

Baikie, William Balfour, born at Kirkwall in 1824, took the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh, and entered the Royal Navy. In 1854 he was attached to the Niger Expedition, to the command of which he ultimately succeeded. He explored the river for a distance of 250 miles. In 1857 he established a mission station, where he lived for some years doing excellent work, collecting valuable vocabularies, and translating parts of the Bible and Prayerbook into African dialects. His health at last broke down, and he died at Sierra Leone in 1862.