Baker, G.P.

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Baker, G.P.

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      • Wrau, John

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      Dates of existence

      21 May 1879 - 1951

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      (from Wikipedia entry)

      George Philip Baker was a writer of popular history. He was deaf from the age of eight. Born at Plumstead in Kent on the 21st of May 1879 he was the son of Philip Baker (an ‘engine fitter and turner’) and his wife Emily. According to his obituary in the Times Baker lost his hearing when he was a boy. The 1901 census tells us that he was ‘deaf from 8 yrs’. His parents sent him to be educated at the Brighton Institution, where he came under the tutelage of William Sleight and his son Arthur.

      On leaving school in 1895, Baker got a job in the Royal Carriage Department of the Woolwich Arsenal where the 1901 and 1911 censuses describe himself as being employed as a lithographic draughtsman. In 1910 he married Josephine Garthwaite, who had been a teacher. Leaving to become a full time writer in 1922, Baker was either taking a big gamble or was financially secure.

      For more information, see Wikipedia entry at: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Philip_Baker .

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      Related entity

      Welby, Victoria, Lady, 1837-1912 (1837-1912)

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      29543057

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1906

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      Authority record identifier

      http://viaf.org/viaf/37784588

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Created 2015-10-13 by Anna St.Onge.

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      • English

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      • Latin

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