Baines, Henry Wolfe, Anglican Bishop of Singapore and Wellington, born England, 7 February 1905, died Wellington New Zealand 29 November 1972.

Educated at Repton, Oxford (Balliol), and at Cuddleston, Baines was an SCM Traveling Secretary (1927-1929), ordained deacon in 1930 and priest in 1931. He was chaplain at St John’s Cathedral in Hong Kong (1934-1938), Vicar of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry (1938-1941) and then Rector of Rugby. He married Elizabeth Bartlett in 1944 and in 1949 was consecrated Bishop of Singapore. During the Malayan Emergency Baines was noted for his ecumenical commitment and encouragement of local clergy. In 1960 he became Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand. He visited South Vietnam in 1971 and opposed rugby tours to South Africa under apartheid. Of imposing stature and gracious manner, he had a good voice and was known as a person of prayer as well as a listener.

John Roxborogh