John Holland Baker

Thomas Feilding Baker, Rector of Cressingham Parish, Norfolk, and Catherine Mathias, he was educated at Yarmouth Grammar School, and in Germany, where he lived with his parents in Königswinter.

[2] In the following year, he started an apprenticeship as a surveyor, with another uncle, John Baker, paying the £200 for the three-year education.

Baker explored the Southern Alps with Samuel Butler for further sheep country; they found what was later known as Whitcombe Pass but no suitable land.

[3] The Otago gold rush attracted Baker south, and he spent six months prospecting at the Tuapeka River.

Her mother, Anne Marie (or Anna Maria), was a daughter of Alexander Powell MP,[4] a Tory member of parliament for Downton, Wiltshire.