the cotton industry to his father's History of Lancashire were praised by reviewers; at their suggestion his History of the Cotton Manufacture was published separately with much additional material (1835). He celebrated the natural position and the political advantages of English commerce and manufacturing districts, and especially of the English navy which "held the sovereignty of the ocean, and under its protection the commerce of this country extended beyond all former bounds, and established a firm connexion between the manufacturers of Lancashire and their customers in the most distant lands." Baines also wrote a number of more polemical works; e.g. criticisms of Owenism. In 1840 he attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention where he was captured in a group painting. He married Martha Blackburn in 1829. Baines died on 2 March 1890 in Leeds, and was interred in the family vault at Woodhouse Cemetery. Works See also Charles Reed, educationalist and MP, married Edward Baines's sister Margaret Edward Crossley, of Halifax, carpet-manufacturer, astronomer and MP, married Edward Baines's third daughter, Jane Eleanor References Sources External links 1800 births 1890 deaths Church of England disestablishment Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politicians from Leeds English newspaper editors English male journalists UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 19th-century British journalists