Obituary

It is with profound regret that the REVIEW announces the death of Dr. H. G. Baynes of England. He died on September 6. He had come into the foreground of medical psychology in England as interpreter of the views of C. G. Jung, whose confidential assistant he was at Zurich for three years after the last war, and he organized and took part in Dr. Jung's expedition to East Africa in 1925-1926 for purposes of psychological research among the Masai tribes of Mount Elgon, Kenya. The neglect of Jung's views compared with those of Freud in this country had been partly due to paucity of exponents. After the death of Dr. Constance Long Dr. Baynes was almost alone in the field. The Editor (S.E.J.) remembers, with much pleasure, a long talk with Dr. Baynes, following a session at Dr. Jung's home in Küssnach.

Born at Hampstead on June 26, 1882, Helton Godwin Baynes was educated at Reading, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. At Cambridge he played football for his college and swam for the University, but he became best known as a fine oarsman. A man of exceptional physique, he was in the Cambridge boat which beat Harvard in 1906, and rowed five in the Cambridge crew which beat Oxford in 1907. At Bart's, after qualifying in 1910, he served as house-physician. He was surgeon-in-charge of the Red Crescent Mission to Turkey during the Balkan War of 1911-1912, and then worked as a general practitioner at Wisbech for two years; he left that in 1915 to serve in France, Mesopotamia, and Persia with a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. Before going to Zurich he was for a short time on the resident staff of the Maudsley Hospital, and he returned to England for a year to work as consulting neurologist under the Ministry of Pensions. Thenceforward Godwin Baynes devoted himself to analytical psychology, and published many papers and books on this and kindred subjects. He was the translator and editor of Jung's “Psychological Types” and two other of Jung's works