BAKER, ROBERT, only son of John Baker, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1724; left 1729; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Oct 1731, scholar 12 May 1732, matr. 1731; adm. Middle Temple 20 Apr 1730.
BAKER, ROBERT; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1603, adm. scholar 1603; BA 1607/8; MA 1611.
BAKER, THOMAS, only son of Rev. Thomas Baker, Minor Canon of St. Paul’s and of Westminster, and Rector of Nailstone, Leics.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1731, 1732; left 1734; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1734, aged 18, matr. 1735; BA 1738/9; MA 1742; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Feb 1740/1, priest (London) 24 May 1741 (or Canterbury, 1741/2); Curate, Nailstone, Leics., Feb 1741; Minor Canon of Westminster; a Priest in Ordinary, Chapel Royal (by 1748); preacher at Queen’s Square Chapel, Westminster; Rector of Frinsted, Kent, from 1747; Vicar of Detling, Kent, from 1764; m. 3 Oct 1752 Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, Snave; d. 24 May 1779; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
BAKER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Baker, Southwark, Surrey; b.; in school lists 1656; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 3 May 1662, aged 20, Westminster Student 10 Mar 1662 – void 1665 (having been expelled for drunkenness but reprieved same day in hope of amendment, 22 Mar 1665).
Baker-Cresswell, Gilfrid Edward, 1914-1943
Baker-Cresswell, Gilfrid Edward, son of Henry Gilfrid Baker-Cresswell AMICE, GPO engineer, and Vera Mabel, d. of Edward Foote Ward of Salhouse Hall, Norfolk, and niece of Gerald Charles Fanshawe (qv); b. 15 July 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (R); left Apr. 1932; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935; RMA Woolwich 1935-7; RE 1937-42 (Maj.); m. 27 Sept. 1938 Anne Sylvia, d. of Sir John Charrington, coal merchant, of Crockham Hill, Kent; killed in action (Middle East) Oct. 1942; despatches (posthumous) June 1943.
Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of July 1914 the elder son of Henry Gilfred Baker-Cresswell AMICE, an engineer for the General Post Office, and Vera Mabel (nee Ward) Baker-Cresswell of Salthouse Hall, Norfolk, later of The Post House, Ellingham, Chathill in Northumberland. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1927 to April 1932 He won a O.W.W. Masonic Lodge Prize for Science (practical) in 1930. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1930. He won the Long Distance Race at Putney in 1931 and the Long Distance Race on the 8th of March 1932 and won a number of other cups for running during his time at the school.
On leaving school he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 30th of August 1934. He was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on the 1st of October 1934 where he read engineering and graduated with a BA in 1936. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 30th of August 1937 and to Captain on the 30th of August 1942.
He was married on the 27th of September 1938 to Anne Sylvia (nee Charrington) of Broad Oak End, Hertford. They had two children, Sally and Gilfred John, born on the 12th of December 1939. Shortly after he was married he was posted to Mauritius for garrison duty.
He was Mentioned in Despatches: - “In recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East during the period 1st May 1942 to 22nd October 1942”, which was announced by the War Office on the 24th of June 1943.
He is commemorated on a stone plaque in St Maurice’s Church, Ellingham and on the war memorial at Ellingham. He is also commemorated on the memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery Plot XI, Row E, Grave 1.
Baker-Cresswell, Thomas Henry, 1917-2011
Baker-Cresswell, Thomas Henry, brother of Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell (qv); b. 13 Mar. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left Dec. 1934; RM 1935-1957 (Maj.); served with 41 RM Commando at Salerno; retd 1957; JP; DL (Northumberland) 1971; m. 23 Oct. 1946 Anne Sylvia, widow of Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell (qv); d. 14 Nov. 2011.
Bakewell, Robert Turle, d. 1940
BAKEWELL, ROBERT TURLE, second son of Robert Simpson Bakewell, Wealdstone, Middlesex, hide and colonial manufacturer, and Sarah Jane, dau. of John Turle MD, London, and niece of James Turle, Music Master at the School and Organist of Westminster Abbey; b. 8 Jan 1867; adm. (H) 27 May 1880; left Dec 1881; at Highgate Sch. Jan 1882 - Dec 1883; Univ. Coll. Hospital; MRCS, LRCP 1892; MB (London) 1894; a medical practitioner in London until retirement in 1932; OBE 5 Jun 1920; m. 22 Oct 1902 Annie Florence, fourth dau. of Robert Fell, Edgerton, Huddersfield, Yorks.; d. 24 Dec 1940.
Baldock, Francis Reginald, 1883-?
Baldock, Francis Reginald, son of the Rev. Richard Baldock; b. May 9, 1883; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (A); left April 1900; Selwyn Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1901; B.A. 1904. Baldon, James William, son of Arthur Ernest Baldon, of Ealing, by Eleanor, daughter of James Nicholas, of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire; b. June 9, 1907; adm. Sept. 22, 1921 (H); left July 1925; Law Society's Prize Studentship 1927; LL. B. (Lond.) 1930; adm. a solicitor June 1931; practises in London; Paymr. Sub.-Lieut. R. N. V. R. July 22, 1942; Paymr. Lt.; m. Vera Drown.
BALDOCKE, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner in 1566 (tutor, the Usher) (Chapter Muniments 54009-12).