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Authorised form of nameBaker; Henry (1698 - 1774); naturalist and poet
Dates1698 - 1774
NationalityBritish
Place of birthChancery Lane, London, England
Date of birth08 May 1698
Place of deathThe Strand, London
Date of death25 November 1774
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Churchyard of St Mary-le-Strand?
OccupationBookseller; editor; therapist for deaf children
Research fieldMicroscopy
Deafness
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/03/1741
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1744; founder of the Bakerian lecture
RelationshipsSon-in-law of Daniel Defoe, married (30 April 1729) Defoe's youngest daughter Sophia
PublishedWorksA Short History of Speech (1723), The Microscope made Easy (1743), Employment for the Microscope (1753), The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man (1727)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
References:
Marta Cavazza, 'The Institute of Science of Bologna and the Royal Society in the eighteenth century' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 3-25, plate
W Johnson, 'Richard Jack and Henry Baker, FRS, in the Late Summer of 1746' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 225-231
G L E Turner, 'Henry Baker, FRS: Founder of the Bakerian Lecture' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 53-79, plate
CodeNA6218
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
L&P/2/131Letter, 'Of earthquakes on 4 May & 1 Jul 1747' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes10 May 1750
L&P/1/234Paper, 'On a ploype dried' by Henry Baker 1743
L&P/1/318Letter, 'Of certain strata near Norwich' from William Anderson to Henry Baker20 September 1744
L&P/2/17Letter, 'Natural history observations' from William Arderon to Henry Baker17 November 1749
MM/3/13Certificates from James Parsons and Henry Baker to the Royal Society18-19 December 1767
MM/11/48Extract from the Will of Henry Baker1774
IM/000193Baker, Henrynd
IM/000194Baker, Henry1994
IM/000192Baker, Henrynd
L&P/1/208Letter, 'Of a book on reading in Dublin' from Thomas Walls to Henry Baker4 August 1743
L&P/4/317Paper, 'Report on de Torre's miscroscope-glasses' by Henry Baker17 April 1766
L&P/1/469Letter, 'Of a case where waxed ticken escaped burning with other clothes destroyed' from R Lowell Badcock to Henry Baker17 March 1746
L&P/1/464Letter, 'Of a needle removed from the arm' from William Arderon to Henry Baker9 January 1746
L&P/2/577Letter, 'Of Dr Roger's meteorological observations' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker19 February 1755
L&P/1/433/1Letter, 'Of the weaver's alarum [alarm]' from William Arderon to Henry Baker1745
L&P/3/246Note, 'Concerning two specimens of silk-paper, now first made in England - one ream of each kind, by the desire of the Society of Arts' by Henry Baker12 May 1757
L&P/4/80Letter, 'Of corals' from John Stevens to Henry Baker2 May 1761
L&P/2/80Letter, 'Of the same meteor' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes12 December 1750
L&P/2/172Letter, 'Of the same earthquake' from P Doddridge to Henry Baker17 October 1750
L&P/1/279Paper, 'An examination of the fetahered inola of a hen, shewn by Dr Stocke' by Henry Baker16 April 1744
L&P/1/444Letter, 'On electricity' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker22 January 1746
L&P/1/471Letter, 'Electrical observations' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker20 March 1746
L&P/1/306Paper, 'On the configuration of saline bodies' by Henry Baker1744
L&P/3/326Letter, 'Experiments on a piece of iron 88 years on the spire of Norwich Cathedral in a vertical position not magnetic; of a sub-lingual concretion; of a solar halo and mock Sun' from William Arderon to Henry Baker25 March 1758
L&P/2/143Letter, 'Of a Dutch dwarf' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes13 June 1750
L&P/1/234/1Paper, 'On a ploype dried' by Henry Baker 1743
L&P/1/264/1Paper, 'Of the eye sucker' by Henry Baker1744
L&P/1/476/1Letter, 'Of the improvement of the weather-cord' from William Arderon to Henry Baker21 December 1745
L&P/1/276/1Letter, 'Of a press for taking off medals' from Henry Baker to the Royal Society1744
L&P/1/459Letter, 'On the water of bitter almonds' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes6 March 1746
L&P/2/371Paper, 'Of an inscription newly found at Bath' from Henry Baker4 July 1753
L&P/3/398Letter, 'Of the late comet' from Alexander Garden to Henry Baker10 May 1759
L&P/2/460Letter, 'Of a supposed worm from the urethra' from Charles Morton to Henry Baker4 October 1753
L&P/2/473Paper, 'An account of Charles de Geer's memoirs towards a history of insects' by Henry Baker24 January 1754
L&P/2/362Paper, 'Of Cornish gold' by Henry Baker20 June 1753
L&P/1/390Letter, 'Of a looped belt found at Reepham, Norfolk and of a Roman inscribed tripod found 14 miles from Turin owned byJ L Bruni' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes8 May 1745
L&P/1/458Letter, 'Electrical observations' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker4 March 1746
L&P/3/108Paper, 'Of recent earthquakes' from Guiseppe Lorenzo Bruni to Henry Baker19 February 1756
L&P/2/235Letter, 'Of a dwarf' from John Browning to Henry Baker12 September 1751
L&P/2/560Paper, 'Of a distempered skin' by Henry Baker1754
L&P/2/117Letter, 'A specimen of Orbis piscis echinatus' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes26 April 1750
L&P/3/320Letter, 'Of the productions of South Carolina' from Alexander Garden to Henry Baker5 April 1758
L&P/2/583Letter, 'Of the smallpox' from Johannes Grashius to Henry Baker1755
L&P/2/497Letter, 'On Job Baster's meteorological observations for 1752 and 1753' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker21 March 1754
L&P/3/259Letter, 'Reasons why the dropsy is frequently incurable' from Johannes Grashius to Henry Baker1757
L&P/4/122Letter, 'Of an inundation' from William Arderon to Henry Baker9 November 1762
L&P/4/64/1Letter, 'Of certain undescribed worms' from Henry Baker to the Royal Society2 April 1761
L&P/3/381Paper, 'Of fossil starfish in 'granate' from Antigua' by Henry Baker3 May 1759
L&P/3/91Letter, 'Earthquake of Nov 1, as observed at Greenock' from James Miller to Henry Baker8 January 1756
L&P/2/529Letter, 'On Pieter Gabry's meteorological tables' from Henry Miles to Henry Baker15 May 1754
L&P/3/361Letter, 'Of the thunderstorm at Norwich on 13 July 1758' from William Arderon to Henry Baker3 August 1758
L&P/4/116Paper, 'Of the laid wheat eaten by the sufferers in the Wrathisham case' by Henry Baker and James Bones16 May 1762
L&P/3/204Letter, 'Earthquake at Norwich, 10 Jan 1757' from William Anderson to Henry Baker13 January 1757
L&P/4/64Paper, 'Of certain undescribed worms' by Henry Baker2 April 1761
L&P/4/209Letter, 'Of inscriptions on marble brought from the coast of Barbary' from John Wilkinson to Henry Baker29 March 1764
L&P/4/198Letter, 'Of Polish cochineal' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker1764
L&P/4/69Letter, 'On corals' from William Stukeley to Henry Baker15 April 1761
L&P/4/241Memorandum, 'Henry Baker presents a monstrous Siberian lamb to the Royal Society'1765
L&P/4/414Letter, 'Of medicines for canine madness' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker26 September 1767
L&P/4/374Letter, 'Of three cures by electricity' from John Wyatt to Henry Baker1767
L&P/4/55Letter, 'Thermometric observations' from Comte de Saluces [Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo] to Henry Baker17 September 1760
L&P/4/237Paper, 'A leaf of the true rhubarb, raised from seed in Siberia' by Henry Baker13 December 1764
L&P/2/363Letter, 'Of a basaltes specimen of the Giant's Causeway' from Henry Baker to the Royal Society21 June 1753
L&P/2/36Letter, 'Of the earthquake felt in London' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes8 February 1750
L&P/1/435Letter, 'On his election as FRS' from William Arderon to Henry Baker16 December 1745
EC/1740/27Baker, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society12 March 1741
L&P/1/330Letter, 'Removal of a piece of iron wire 4 inches long from the bladder of a boy of 17, who recovered' from William Arderon to Henry Baker12 October 1744
IM/005337Baker, Henrynd
L&P/3/203Paper, 'Of the strange effects of some effervescent mixtures' from James Mounsey to Henry Baker20 September 1756
IM/000191Baker, Henrynd
L&P/5/81Letter, 'Earthquake at Macao and account of monkeys without tails found in the interior part of Bengal' from Stephen De Visme to Henry Baker7 January 1768
MOB/042Compound microscope by William Caryc.1810
L&P/1/456Letter, 'Of an improved hygroscope' from William Arderon to Henry Baker15 February 1746
L&P/1/15Paper, 'An account of Leeuwenhoeck's microscopes' by Henry Baker [1741]
L&P/2/52aLetter, 'Of the earthquake in London of March 8 1749/50' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes8 March 1750
L&P/1/276Paper, 'Of a press for taking off medals' by Henry Baker1744
L&P/1/426Letter, 'Sinking of the ground at Horseford, Norfolk' from William Arderon to Henry Baker1745
L&P/1/376Letter, 'Of an extraordinary large elephant's tooth found at Munslet, Norfolk, over 11 lbs in weight' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes26 March 1745
L&P/1/264Paper, 'Of the eye sucker' by Henry Baker8 March 1744
L&P/1/151Paper, 'An account of the generation of seeds by Johann Daniel Schlichting' by Henry Baker1742
L&P/2/145Letter, 'Of a noise in the air heard in Norwich' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes14 June 1750
L&P/2/156Letter, 'Accounts of aurora boreales lately seen' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes18 June 1750
L&P/1/329Letter, 'Of two water-insects susceptible, like the fresh-water polype, of mutiplication by section' from William Arderon to Henry Baker12 February 1744
L&P/1/437Letter, 'Of Philip Williams water-wheel' from William Arderon to Henry Baker1745
L&P/1/349Letter, 'Concerning the Bologna bottles' from Guiseppe Lorenzo Bruni to Henry Baker22 November 1744
L&P/1/422/1Letter, 'The ancient Bridewell of Norwich; of an inscribed Roman metal plate found at Menteu, 14 miles from Turin & of a vast bone in Norwich' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes30 October 1745
L&P/1/85Letter, 'Concerning the case of the woman who continues to speak without a tongue; the case of Margaret Cutting' from Benjamin Beddington to Henry Baker10 April 1742
L&P/4/118Letter, 'Of experiments on absorption of air in burning' from Comte de Saluces [Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo] to Henry Baker1 July 1761
L&P/1/441Letter, 'The author shows an Italian grain, from J Bruni - Meliga Rossa' from Henry Baker to Martin Folkes16 January 1746
L&P/3/257Letter, 'Of the effects of prickly pear and of indigo in colouring the juices of living animals' from Alexander Garden to Henry Baker23 June 1757
L&P/5/32Letter, 'Of the winter in Warsaw' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker15 April 1768
L&P/2/144Letter, 'A dwarf and a child compared by David Erskine Baker' from William Arderon to Henry Baker11 May 1750
L&P/3/364Letter, 'Of meteorological observations by Richard Brooke in Maryland' from Henry Baker to George Parker1759
L&P/1/422Paper, 'The ancient Bridewell of Norwich; of an inscribed Roman metal plate found at Menteu, 14 miles from Turin & of a vast bone in Norwich' by Henry Baker30 October 1745
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