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BAKER, SIR EDWARD BAKER, BART., eldest son of Baker John Littlehales (qv); b. 23 Feb 1764; adm. 10 Jun 1776; left Easter 1780; Ensign, 58th Foot, 3 Mar 1780; Lieut., half-pay, 15 May 1783; restored to active list 28 May 1784; Capt., Independent Company 1790; 17th Foot, and Brevet Maj., 14 Dec 1796; Maj., 1st Foot, 24 Jan 1800 (check); Brevet Lieut. -Col. 21 Dec 1797; Lieut. -Col., 17th Foot, 26 Dec 1798; retd. 16 Jul 1802; Private Secretary to 1st Marquis Cornwallis, Lord Lieut. Ireland, 26 Dec 1798; Under-Secretary, Military Department, Dublin, 1801-19; created baronet 2 Sep 1802; inherited Ranston estate, Dorset, on death of his father’s first cousin Peter William Baker MP; assumed surname of Baker in lieu of Littlehales 17 Jan 1817; m. 22 Jul 1805 Lady Elizabeth Mary Fitzgerald, dau. of William Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster (I) KP; d. 4 Mar 1825.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.