Surname: Baildon Forename(s): Henry Bellyse b. 28 August 1849. d. 6 September 1907. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet and scholar. Alternative signature: “H. B. Baildon.” Born in Granton. Educated
at the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Freiburg, and then taught at the
Universities of Vienna, Glasgow, and Dundee. Friend and biographer of Robert Louis
Stevenson. Author of The Rescue, and Other Poems (1893). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 24. (AC)