Harold Baker (politician)

Harold Trevor Baker PC (22 January 1877 – 12 July 1960) was a British scholar, barrister, and Liberal politician.

He served in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1912 to 1914 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1915.

During the European War that broke out in 1914 he was a Member of His Majesty's Army Council, and in 1916 he became Inspector of Quartermaster-General Services.

[3] He was defeated at the 1918 general election, when he faced both a Labour opponent as well as a Coalition government backed Unionist.

[1] By his affair with Lady Gwendoline Bertie, the wife of Jack Churchill, he was the father of Clarissa Eden.