Henry Baker
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Henry Baker may refer to:
- Henry Baker (naturalist)Henry Baker (naturalist)Henry Baker was an English naturalist.-Life:He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery. In his fifteenth year he was apprenticed to John Parker, a bookseller...
(1698–1774), English - Henry Baker (author)Henry Baker (author)Henry Baker , was an English author.Baker was born at Enfield, Middlesex, 10 February 1734, the second son of Henry Baker, F.R.S., and Sophia, daughter of Daniel Defoe. According to Nichols , he followed the profession of a lawyer, but in no creditable line...
- Henry Williams Baker, hymn writer
- Henry Aaron BakerHenry Aaron BakerHenry Aaron Baker , was an Irish architect.Baker was a pupil of James Gandon, 'and acted as clerk of the works to the buildings designed and chiefly constructed by his master for the Inns of Court, then called the King's Inns, at Dublin.' He was a member of, and for some time secretary to, the...
, architect - Henry Baker (computer scientist)Henry Baker (computer scientist)Henry Givens Baker Jr. is a computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was also one of the founders of Symbolics...
(fl. late 20th century) - Henry Frederick Baker (1866–1956), English mathematician
- Henry Moore BakerHenry Moore BakerHenry Moore Baker was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Bow, near Concord, New Hampshire, Baker attended the common schools, as well as Pembroke, Tilton, and Hopkinton Academies in New Hampshire...
(1841–1912), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Henry Baker, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the seventh story of twelve in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
See also
- Harry Baker (disambiguation)
- Henry Baker TristramHenry Baker TristramThe Reverend Henry Baker Tristram FRS was an English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist.Tristram was born at Eglingham vicarage, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1846 he was ordained a priest, but he suffered from...
, English clergyman and ornithologist