Frederick and Arthur Baxter
(1859-1932 and 1860-1923)
23 June 1862

Volume 7, page 189, sitting number 9001.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Frederick and Arthur Baxter,' the boys in this portrait are Clement Frederick Baxter, baptised on 21 July 1858 at Holy Trinity, Paddington, and Arthur Lionel Baxter, baptised on 2 March 1860 at the same church. Their parents were Richard Baxter, a Barrister-at-Law, and his wife, Octavia Mary née Carlyon, daughter of Dr Clement Carlyon [whose portrait appears on page 37 of this section]. They were married at Kenwyn, Truro, Cornwall, on 28 August 1851. Mrs Baxter died on 2 February 1871.

The children appear on the 1861 census, living with their mother, two older brothers, a governess and five servants at 14 Porchester Square, Paddington, London. Their father was elsewhere on the night the census was taken.

They appear again on the 1871 census, living at 19 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, with their two older brothers, their father, by now a widower, and five servants.

Clement Frederick Baxter appears in Hart’s Army List (1885), a Lieutenant in the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot, stationed at Poona, Bombay. In Hart’s Army List (1895), he is listed as a Captain in the 2nd Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, stationed at Devonport. He died on 2 October 1932 at Flat C, 29 Abbey Road, St John's Wood. He left an estate valued at £15,825. 

Arthur Lionel Baxter followed his father into the legal profession. The 1901 census shows him living at 27 Mornington Crescent, Camden, London, an unmarried, 27-year-old Barrister-at-Law. He died, aged 63, on 14 July 1923 at The Hutch, Matlock Road, Caversham, Oxfordshire, leaving an estate valued at £211.