Sophia Baillie (1771–1843) was the daughter of Dr Thomas Denman. Denman was a naval surgeon who served on Captain Drake’s ship. After the war he returned to London where he lectured on midwifery, worked as a surgeon on one of the Royal yachts and became one of the most successful medical practitioners in London of his time. In 1791 Sophia married Dr Matthew Baillie, the renowned pathological anatomist, whose research into morbid anatomy revealed a new field of study that become recognised as an independent science. On Baillie's death, Sophia gave a gift to the Royal College of Physicians, where her husband was a fellow, of a gold-headed cane, which had also belonged to Doctors John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Anthony Askew, William and David Pitcairn.