Name Helton Baynes Died 1943 | Role Author Education University of Cambridge | |
Books Germany Possessed, Mythology of the soul, Analytical psychology and the English mind | ||
Helton Godwin Baynes, also known as ‘Peter’ Baynes (26 June 1882, Hampstead – 1943), was an English analytical psychologist and author, who was a friend and translator of Carl Jung.
Baynes was educated at the Quaker school, Leighton Park (along with two other leading members of the British Psychoanalytical Society: John Rickman and Lionel Penrose) and then at Trinity College, Cambridge where he read medicine and where he won Blues for Rowing and Swimming two years running.
He became a House Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1913 he married Rosalind Thornycroft (1891-1973), divorcing her in 1921. (Rosalind, a friend of D. H. Lawrence, later married the art historian Arthur E. Popham.) That year he started collaborating with Cary Angulo, nee Fink (1883-1977) in translating Jung. Baynes accompanied Jung on his expedition to East Africa in 1925-26. In 1927 he married Cary Angulo.