Robert Wilfred Baker (9 April 1917 – 3 July 1985) was an Australian lawyer, legal scholar and politician, who was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1969 as a Liberal member for Denison.
[2] In December that year, Baker was selected as Tasmania's Rhodes Scholar for 1940,[3] but postponed his studies to enlist in the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1945 during World War II, obtaining the rank of lieutenant.
[2] As a requirement for his Bachelor of Letters degree, Baker completed a thesis under the supervision of Arthur Lehman Goodhart.
[5] Baker was an amateur but accomplished sportsman, in spite of a partly disabled right forearm which prevented him from joining the British military during World War II.
[5] During his navy service, Baker met fellow tennis player Alison Burton in Melbourne, and they married in Oxford when he returned there to study.