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See also: English See also: antiquary, was See also: born on the 14th of See also: September 1656 at Lanchester, Durham
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He was the See also: grandson of Colonel See also: Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the See also: civil war by his defence of See also: Newcastle against the Scots
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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, Cambridge, where he afterwards obtained a fellowship
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See also: Lord See also: Crew, See also: bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of Long-See also: Newton in his 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 Declaration of Indulgence
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The bishop who disgraced him for this refusal, and who was after-wards specially excepted from
See also: William's
See also: Act of Indemnity, took the oaths to that See also: king and kept his bishopric till his
See also: death
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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
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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 elder See also: brother's collieries, was now his whole subsistence
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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 rector ejectus
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He continued to reside in the college as commoner-master till his sudden death from apoplexy on the 2nd of See also: July 1744
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The whole of his valuable books and See also: manuscripts he bequeathed to the university
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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 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
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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 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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The See also: life of Baker was written by Robert Masters (Carob., 1784), and by Horace Walpole in the quarto edition of his See also: works
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