John Baker (barrister)

[4] Nicholas Tuite (1705–1772), a slave-owner on Montserrat who moved to Saint Croix, was a good friend of Baker.

[2] Orla Power writes that Baker was not himself able to finance purchase of a plantation: in 1751 through Tuite he was offered a share in one, on easy terms.

[8] Baker's diary for 22 August records meetings in Copenhagen on a visit to Frederiksberg: with Johann Rudolf Iselin, Adam Gottlob Moltke, Johan Ludvig Holstein and Philipp Conrad Fabricius; and, at the levee of Frederick V of Denmark, the French ambassador Jean-François Ogier.

He records visits to the artist studios of William Hoare and Thomas Gainsborough, recording society figures encountered (Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet) rather than artworks, excepting in relation to Elizabeth Ann Linley and her unwanted, married admirer Thomas Mathews.

[15] John Pool(e), aged 61 in 1774, acted as attorney in Jamaica for absentee planted, and had reputedly made a fortune.

[18] Martha Baker met in Paris Henry Swinburne, of an old recusant family, who was taking a version of the Grand Tour.

[19] Martha shared after her father's death in 1779 in his West Indian property, but the Anglo-French War by then being fought in the Caribbean made it worthless.