James Black Baillie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Black Baillie

British philosopher

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1872

Place of Birth: Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1940

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sir James Black Baillie, (24 October 1872 – 9 June 1940) was a British moral philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
He wrote the first significant translation of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Mind." He is said to be the model for the character Sir John Evans in the novel The Weight of the Evidence (1944) by Michael Innes.