William Baker (1743–1824)

William Baker (3 October 1743 – 20 January 1824) was a British politician.

Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1761, he did not matriculate there.

He studied law at the Inner Temple (1761), where he was called to the bar in 1775.

[1] He succeeded his father in 1770, inheriting and renovating the Bayfordbury country house in Hertfordshire.

He had married twice: firstly with Juliana, the daughter of Thomas Penn of Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire and the granddaughter of William Penn, Governor of Pennsylvania, with whom he had a daughter; and secondly with Sophia, the daughter of John Conyers of Copt Hall, Essex, with whom he had 9 sons and 6 daughters, including Colonel George Baker.