William Scott Baker[1] (called Bill;[2] 22 June 1902 – 30 November 1990) was an Anglican bishop in the Diocese of Zanzibar and its successors.
His father was William Wing Carew Baker, sometime Vicar of Southill, Bedfordshire and Canon.
[3] Baker was educated at King's College School, Cambridge,[4] Aldenham School and King's College, Cambridge.
After this he was Vicar of St John the Baptist's, Newcastle on Tyne,[6] when he was ordained to the episcopate[7] by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, on St Matthew's Day 1943 (21 September), at Westminster Abbey.
Baker continued in the diocese until 1968,[12][13] when he returned to the UK to serve as both Assistant Bishop of Liverpool and as lecturer at St Katharine's College, Liverpool.