Edmund John Baillie FRHS FLS (4 May 1851 – 18 October 1897) was a Welsh businessman, horticulturalist and vegetarianism activist.

[1] As a young man, Baillie worked at the firm F. and A. Dickson and Sons of Eastgate, Chester, where he eventually became its adviser and partner.

[5] He was elected for the Linnean Society of London on 21 June 1878 and became a Fellow in 1883.

[1] For his services to natural science he was awarded the Kingsley Memorial Medal.

[2][9] In 1885, Baiillie wrote in The Dietetic Reformer about vegetarian rennet made from the berries of Withania coagulans.