Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet

He moved to Stamford, Lincolnshire to practice medicine but returned to London around 1761 to become very successful, being elected President of the Royal College of Physicians nine times between 1785 and 1795.

In a presentation to the Royal College of Physicians he postulated that "Devonshire colic", a painful and occasionally fatal condition, was caused by lead poisoning from drinking cider.

When lead was removed from the cider manufacturing process the problem disappeared.

He was created Baronet Baker of Loventor in Totnes, Devon on 26 August 1776.

He died in 1809, at the age of 87, and was buried at St James's Church, Piccadilly, where a plain mural tablet to the north of the Communion table records his death.