Background
Baillie was born in 1741, and became in 1767 minister of the Carliol-Street meeting-house (United Secession) at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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John Baillie
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Career
His convivial habits having led him into irregularities peculiarly inconsistent with his profession, his connection with this congregation ceased about 1783. He then assisted William Tinwell, the author of A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic, in conducting a school. Afterwards he lectured in a schoolroom in Saint Nicholas"s churchyard at Newcastle, and in 1797 his friends fitted up the old Postern Chapel for his use.
He was in pecuniary difficulties for several years previous to his death, which occurred at Gateshead on 12 December 1806.
