 of Hereford, and was born in 1815.He was a member of the old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newton, and claimed among his ancestry the celebrated nonconformist divine, Richard Baxter, and Hugh Baxter of Ystradfaelog (1687) and Richard Baxter (1690), the names of the two latter being recorded as benefactors to the poor of Trefeglwys and Llanwnog.He was the author of "The Book of Bastiles", an attack upon the English Poor Laws, the "bastiles" being the workhouses; "Humour and Pathos", and several other works.