| Authorised form of name | Baker; Sir; Samuel White (1821 - 1893) |
| Dates | 1821 - 1893 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Thorngrove, Worcestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 08 June 1821 |
| Place of death | Sandford Orleigh, near Newton Abbot |
| Date of death | 30 December 1893 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Ashes buried at Grimley, near Worcester |
| Activity | Education:
Frankfurt. MA
Career:
Travelled to Ceylon (1845-1854); established an agricultural settlement at Nuwara Elliya; oversaw railway construction from the Danube to the Black Sea (1859); explored the sources of the Nile with his second wife; searched for and found the Great Lake Albert Nyanza (1864); accompanied the Prince of Wales to Egypt and the Nile (1869); commanded an expedition organized by the Pasha of Egypt to suppress slavery and annex the Equatorial regions of the Nile basin (1869-1873); explored Cyprus (1879)
Honours:
Kt 1866
Memberships:
FRGS; Ethnological Society
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1869 |
| Relationships | Second son of Samuel Baker of Lypiatt Park, Gloucestershire and his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Dobson of Enfield.
Married: 1) (1842) Henrietta Biddulph, daughter of Charles Martin, rector of Maisemore (she died 1855); 2) (1860) Florence, daughter of Finian von Saas (a Hungarian) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894 vol 55 pp xxxiv signed by J K |
| Royal Society code | NA6523 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/000204 | Baker, Sir Samuel White | nd |
| NLB/1/75 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Samuel Baker | 26 February 1886 |
| EC/1869/05 | Baker, Sir Samuel White: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |