William Morrant Baker

William Morrant Baker was the son of a solicitor in the Hampshire town of Andover.

In 1858 he entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in London and qualified in 1861.

Baker became Sir James Paget's assistant for many years.

He resigned his post as surgeon in 1892 due to his locomotor ataxia.

Baker's other major contribution was his original description in 1873 of a kind of infective dermatitis known today as erysipeloid.

William Morrant Baker from his obituary in the British Medical Journal in 1896.