John Stewart Bevan Baker (3 May 1926 – 24 June 1994)[1] was a British composer, born in England, but a longtime resident of Scotland.
He was born in Staines, Middlesex, to an English father, Bevan Braithwaite Baker FRSE (1890-1963),[2] a professor of mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Scottish mother, Margaret Stewart Barbour, of Edinburgh.
He stayed in this position for two years, and then devoted himself to giving lectures for the WEA and freelance organ playing in London.
[3][4] His last years in Fortrose were his most productive, and he wrote and directed numerous works for both amateur and professional musicians.
Peter Maxwell Davies has described these compositions as 'beautifully crafted, transparently honest music, of great warmth and melodic fecundity.