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BAKE—BAKER. Basque Roads; left the in 1810; then joined in succession, for short periods, as a Supernumerary, the  80,  98, and  33, all flag-ships of Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane, in the West Indies; became attached, in the course of the same year, to the 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, in the Channel; and, on 27 Dec. 1811, was taken prisoner in a brave but inauspicious attack on a French flotilla near Isle d’Aix. He returned from captivity 20 April, 1814; served, from May following until 28 May, 1815, as a Supernumerary Master’s Mate, in the, Capt. Robt. Hall, at Spithead, and 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, in the West Indies; was then promoted by commission, ante-dated to 3 Feb. 1815,into the 16, Capts. Thos. Wren Carter and Caleb Jackson; came home and was placed on half-pay, 27 June, 1816; and has not since been afloat. – Messrs. Chard.

 BAKE. 

entered the Navy, 8 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Fras. Jackson Snell, employed off Lisbon and Cadiz; became Midshipman, in Dec. 1806, of the 50, Capts. Thos. Secombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh, on the Mediterranean station; removed in Aug. 1809, to the brig, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, in the North Sea, where he witnessed the capture, 28 Oct. 1810, of the privateer Neptune, of 5 guns and 24 men; and afterwards served, from June, 1812, until May, 1815, in the gun-brig and  schooner, both commanded by Lieut. John Julian, in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain, first-rate, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett, and 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Bake, whose commission bears date 4 Feb. 1815, left the in the following May, and has not since been employed.

 BAKER. 

is brother of

This officer passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 9 Nov. 1827. He was subsequently appointed, – 26 July, 1828, as First Lieutenant, to the bomb, Capt. David Hope, employed for some time in blockading the port of Tangier – 4 Feb. 1830, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant to the  84, Capt. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, in the Mediterranean – in May following, to the 28, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, on the same station – 20 Feb. 1833, to the Coast Guard – 13 June, 1839, and 6 Oct. 1840, to the successive command of the and  Revenue cruizers – 9 Aug. 1842, to the Coast Guard again – 28 Jan. 1843, to the, another Revenue-vessel – and, 29 Jan. 1846, to the  steamer, also in the service of the Revenue, which he still commands.

 BAKER. 

is son of the late Rev. Chas. Baker, Vicar of Tilmerstone, co. Kent; nephew of the late Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Thos. Baker, K.C.B. {whom see); and brother-in-law of Commander John Goodrich Dick, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Dec. 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, on the Home station; removed the year following, as Midshipman, to the  80, Commodore Patrick Campbell, employed after the battle of Navarin in blockading that port; next joined in succession, the  50, Capt. Jas. Ashley Maude, on the same station, and the 46, Capt. Benj. Clements, fitting for the West Indies; and from 1829 until 1833, in March of which year he passed his examination, was borne on the books of the 76, flag-ship of his uncle, Sir T. Baker, Commander-in-Chief in South America. For two years of the latter period, however he was lent to the Tribune 42, Capt. John Alex. Duntze nd in that ship he was present at the blockade of Callao and the capture of the Peruvian corvette Libertad, laden with dollars for the payment of the Colombians. Pxior to rejoimng the Mr. Baker was also for some tme emplolyed in the  schooner, at Cape Frio, for the purpose of recovering the treasure.lost in H.M.S. . He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1833; served from 30 May 1834, until paid off in June, 1838, on board the  46, Capt. Robt. Wauchope, stationed on the coast of Africa, where he assisted at the capture of three slavers; and on 10 April, 1839, was appointed to the 44, Capts. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill and Henry Smith. While participating, under the latter officer, in the subsequent operations of the Chinese campaign, he served in the boats at the capture of the barrier-fortifications at Macao, 19 Aug. 1840; also at the reduction of Tycocktow and capture of the Bogue forts, 7 Jan. and 26 Feb. 1841; and on many occasions was actively engaged in watching fire-rafts and otherwise. Lieut. Baker invalided home in the spring of 1841, in consequence of ill-health, produced by the effects of the climate, on board the 72, Capt. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and was advanced to the Rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846. - Goode and Lawrence.

 BAKER. 

, born 3 May, 1795, in London, is third son of the late Sir Robt. Baker, of Montague Place, Russell Square, formerly Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, and Treasurer of the County of Middlesex, by Harriet, fourth daughter of Anthony Aufrère, Esq., of Hoveton Hall co. Norfolk, and niece, maternally, of John Norris, Esq., of Wilton Place, in the same county, founder of the Norrisian Professorship at Cambridge. Commander Baker, who has two brothers in the Hon. E.I.C.’s army, is cousin of Hon. Capt. Wodehouse, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Wm. Parker, with whom, until Feb. 1812, he was actively employed, the last two years as Midshipman, in blockading the French ports in the Bay of Biscay, and in co-operating with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. He was then transferred to the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, and, on 22 of the following May, assisted at the destruction, after a gallant engagement of some hours, in which the British sustained a loss of 5 men killed and 28 wounded, of the two French 44-gun frigates Arienne and Andromaque and 18-gun brig Mameluke, under a galling fire from the batteries at the entrance of L’Orient. From Jan. 1813, until the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 7 March, 1815, Mr. Baker further served, chiefly as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, on board the 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, 110, flag-ship of Sir Harry Neale,  first-rate, Capt. Jas. Nash, 74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, 74, bearing the flag of Hon. H. Hotham,  38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, again, and  20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. He served during that period on the Home and North America stations, and was present in the off the coast of France on the occasion of Buonaparte’s surrender after the battle of Waterloo, to whom, in common with the other officers of the ship, when visited by the Emperor, he had the honour of being introduced. His next appointments were – 20 Nov. 1818, to the 20, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner – and, 11 May, 1320, as First Lieutenant, to the  50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, both on the East India station, whence he returned to England in July, 1822. He subsequently held a command in the Coast Guard from 6 July, 1836, to 5 July, 1839; and on 18 Dec. 1841, was appointed to the 16, in which sloop he sailed for the Cape station, and had the good fortune, in March,