The Baker, later Sherston-Baker Baronetcy, of Dunstable House in Richmond in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
[1] It was created on 14 May 1796 for Robert Baker, in honour of him raising and maintaining a cavalry regiment of 500 men styled "The Richmond Rangers" for King George III.
The fourth Baronet was a Recorder of Helston and of Barnstaple and Bideford and a County Court judge.
[2] The Baker family was settled in the Westcountry several centuries before the creation of the baronetcy.
[3] A version of the arms used by the Baker baronets (Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable five escallops erminois on a chief azure a lion passant of the third)[4] is displayed on the mural monument in Dunchideock Church in Devon of Aaron Baker (1620–1683) of Bowhay in the parish of Exminster, Devon, first President of the Madras Presidency.