Author: Baker, George
Biography:
BAKER, George (c. 1777-1811: ancestry.co.uk)
He was one of the sons of Philip Baker, rector of Michelmersh in Hampshire, and his wife Eleanor Bennett. No public record of his birth has been located but he was baptised on 25 Feb. 1777 in St. Mary’s church, Michelmersh. He matriculated at Corpus Christi college, Oxford, on 6 May 1794 and graduated BA in 1798 and MA in 1802. No record of a marriage has been located. He served as a deputy commissary and private secretary to John Erskine, the Commissary General during the Peninsular war. The preface to his one book of verse is dated from Polesdon, Surrey. He died in Westbury on Trym, a suburb of Bristol, on 22 July 1811, and was buried in the churchyard at Holy Trinity church. His will identifies him as “of Bath” and shows that he owned property in London for which he left the ground rent to a younger brother; his mother and a married sister were also legatees. (ancestry.co.uk 31 Oct. 2022) SR