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Sir Edward Baines, also known as Edward Baines junior (1800–1890) was a nonconformist English newspaper editor and Member of Parliament. ==Biography== Edward Baines, of St Ann's Hill, Leeds, was the second son (and biographer) of Edward Baines (1774–1848), proprietor of the ''Leeds Mercury'' and MP for Leeds in the 1830s, and his wife Charlotte Talbot. His elder brother, Matthew Talbot Baines, was also a politician. Edward Baines junior was educated at a Leeds private school and then at the nonconformist grammar school New College, Manchester. From 1815 he worked as journalist and editor of the ''Leeds Mercury'', becoming a partner in 1827. He married Martha Blackburn in 1829. He became editor and, after his father's death, proprietor of the ''Leeds Mercury''. Baines helped to found the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society. He was also a prominent advocate of working-class adult education, founding Yorkshire Mechanics' Institutes in imitation of George Birkbeck's London mechanics' institute. An educational voluntarist, he opposed state-sponsored education until the 1860s. A political Liberal, he supported the 1832 Reform Act and the 1834 new poor laws. His ''History of the Cotton Manufacture'' (1835) was written in opposition to the corn laws, and he also published criticisms of Owenism. In 1840 he attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention where he was captured in a group painting.〔(The Anti-Slavery Society Convention ), 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed April 2009〕 He served as Liberal M.P. for Leeds from 1859 to 1874. He was knighted in 1880. Baines died on 2 March 1890 in Leeds, he was interred in the family vault at Woodhouse Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Baines (1800–1890)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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