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THOMAS BAKER (1656-1740)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 228 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:BAKER (1656-1740)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:September 1656 at Lanchester, See also:Durham . He was the See also:grandson of See also:Colonel See also:Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the See also:civil See also:war by his See also:defence of See also:Newcastle against the Scots . He was educated at the See also:free school at Durham, and proceeded thence in 1672 to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he afterwards obtained a fellowship . See also:Lord See also:Crew, See also:bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of See also:Long-See also:Newton in his See also:diocese in 1687, and intended to give him that of Sedgefield with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read See also:James II.'s See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence . The bishop who disgraced him for this refusal, and who was after-wards specially excepted from See also:William's See also:Act of See also:Indemnity, took the oaths to that See also:king and kept his bishopric till his See also:death . Baker, on the other See also:hand, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William; he resigned Long-Newton on the 1st of See also:August 169o, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till the loth of See also:January 1716-1717, when he and, one - and - twenty others were deprived of their fellowships . After the passing of the Registering Act in 1723, he could not be prevailed on to comply with its requirements by registering his See also:annuity of £40, although that annuity, See also:left him by his See also:father, with £20 per annum from his See also:elder See also:brother's collieries, was now his whole subsistence . He retained a lively sense of the injuries he had suffered; and inscribed himself in all his own books, as well as in those which he gave to the college library, socius ejectus, and in some See also:rector ejectus . He continued to reside in the college as commoner-See also:master till his sudden death from See also:apoplexy on the 2nd of See also:July 1744 . The whole of his valuable books and See also:manuscripts he bequeathed to the university . The only workshe published were, Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufciency thereof in its several particulars, in See also:order to evince the usefulness and See also:necessity of See also:Revelation (Lond., 1709-1710) and the See also:preface to Bishop See also:Fisher's Funeral See also:Sermon for See also:Margaret, Countess of See also:Richmond and See also:Derby (1708)—both without his name . His valuable See also:manuscript collections relative to the See also:history and antiquities of the university of Cambridge, amounting to See also:thirty-nine volumes in See also:folio and three in See also:quarto, are divided between the See also:British Museum and the public library at Cambridge;;—the former possessing twenty-three volumes, the latter sixteen in folio and three in quarto .

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life of Baker was written by See also:Robert Masters (Carob., 1784), and by See also:Horace See also:Walpole in the quarto edition of his See also:works .

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