Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Baker, David Bristow

by Arthur Henry Bullen

BAKER, DAVID BRISTOW (1803–1852), religious writer, born in 1803, was educated at St. Johns College Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1829, and M.A. in 1832. He was for many years incumbent of Claygate, Surrey. In 1831 he published 'A Treatise of the Nature of Doubt … in Religious Questions and in 1832 'Discourses and sacramental Addresses to a Village Congregation.' He died in 1852.

[Gent. Mag. vol. xxxviii. new series; Brit. Mus. Cat.]

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