Name William Baker Died January 20, 1824 | Role Politician | |
William Baker (3 October 1743 – 20 January 1824) was a British politician.
He was the eldest son of Sir William Baker, MP, educated at Eton College 1(753-60), Clare College, Cambridge (1761) and studied law at the Inner Temple (1761), where he was called to the bar in 1775. He succeeded his father in 1770.
He was elected a Sheriff of London for 1761.
He was the Member of Parliament for Aldborough 4 March 1777 – 8 September 1780, Hertford 7 September 1780 – 30 March 1784, Hertfordshire 23 June 1790 – 10 July 1802 and 11 February 1805 – 11 May 1807 and Plympton Erle 22 March 1768 – 10 October 1774.
He died aged 80. He had married twice; firstly Juliana, the daughter of Thomas Penn of Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire and the granddaughter of William Penn, Governor of Pennsylvania, with whom he had a daughter and secondly Sophia, the daughter of John Conyers of Copt Hall, Essex, with whom he had 9 sons and 6 daughters.