1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bailliere (1795-1885) founded medical and scientific publishing house of Bailliere in Paris;

1830 - Bailliere's brother Hippolyte set up branch of business in London and nephews began a related business, Bailliere Brothers, in New York and Melbourne;

1870 Albert Alfred Tindall purchased the London business of Messrs Bailliere & Co., maintaining its international links and expanding. Although his son took over the running of the business he remained the senior partner until his death, aged 90, in 1931.