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Basque Roads; left the Emerald in 1810; then joined in succession, for short periods, as a Supernumerary, the Pompée 80, Neptune 98, and Statira 33, all flag-ships of Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane, in the West Indies; became attached, in the course of the same year, to the Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, in the Channel; and, on 27 Dec. 1811, was taken prisoner in a brave but inauspicious attack on a French flotilla near Isle d’Aix. He returned from captivity 20 April, 1814; served, from May following until 28 May, 1815, as a Supernumerary Master’s Mate, in the Royal William, Capt. Robt. Hall, at Spithead, and Norge 74, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, in the West Indies; was then promoted by commission, ante-dated to 3 Feb. 1815,into the Emulous 16, Capts. Thos. Wren Carter and Caleb Jackson; came home and was placed on half-pay, 27 June, 1816; and has not since been afloat. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
BAKE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
John Walland Bake entered the Navy, 8 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Avon 18, Capt. Fras. Jackson Snell, employed off Lisbon and Cadiz; became Midshipman, in Dec. 1806, of the Glatton 50, Capts. Thos. Secombe, John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh, on the Mediterranean station; removed in Aug. 1809, to the Cretan brig, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne, in the North Sea, where he witnessed the capture, 28 Oct. 1810, of the privateer Neptune, of 5 guns and 24 men; and afterwards served, from June, 1812, until May, 1815, in the Teazer gun-brig and Racer schooner, both commanded by Lieut. John Julian, in the Channel and off the north coast of Spain, Salvador Del Mundo first-rate, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett, and Queen 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Bake, whose commission bears date 4 Feb. 1815, left the Queen in the following May, and has not since been employed.
BAKER. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Charles Henry Baker is brother of Lieut. Gustavus Spicker Baker, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 9 Nov. 1827. He was subsequently appointed, – 26 July, 1828, as First Lieutenant, to the Meteor bomb, Capt. David Hope, employed for some time in blockading the port of Tangier – 4 Feb. 1830, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Jas. Hope Johnstone, in the Mediterranean – in May following, to the Samarang 28, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, on the same station – 20 Feb. 1833, to the Coast Guard – 13 June, 1839, and 6 Oct. 1840, to the successive command of the Fox and Stork Revenue cruizers – 9 Aug. 1842, to the Coast Guard again – 28 Jan. 1843, to the Harpy, another Revenue-vessel – and, 29 Jan. 1846, to the Vulcan steamer, also in the service of the Revenue, which he still commands.
BAKER. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 13; h-p., 8.)
Charles Hougham Baker is son of the late Rev. Chas. Baker, Vicar of Tilmerstone, co. Kent; nephew of the late Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Thos. Baker, K.C.B. {whom see); and brother-in-law of Commander John Goodrich Dick, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Dec. 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, on the Home station; removed the year following, as Midshipman, to the Ocean 80, Commodore Patrick Campbell, employed after the battle of Navarin in blockading that port; next joined in succession, the Glasgow 50, Capt. Jas. Ashley Maude, on the same station, and the Shannon 46, Capt. Benj. Clements, fitting for the West Indies; and from 1829 until 1833, in March of which year he passed his examination, was borne on the books of the Warspite 76, flag-ship of his uncle, Sir T. Baker, Commander-in-Chief in South America. For two years of the latter period, however he was lent to the Tribune 42, Capt. John Alex. Duntze nd in that ship he was present at the blockade of Callao and the capture of the Peruvian corvette Libertad, laden with dollars for the payment of the Colombians. Pxior to rejoimng the Warspite Mr. Baker was also for some tme emplolyed in the Adelaide schooner, at Cape Frio, for the purpose of recovering the treasure.lost in H.M.S. Thetis. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 March, 1833; served from 30 May 1834, until paid off in June, 1838, on board the Thalia 46, Capt. Robt. Wauchope, stationed on the coast of Africa, where he assisted at the capture of three slavers; and on 10 April, 1839, was appointed to the Druid 44, Capts. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill and Henry Smith. While participating, under the latter officer, in the subsequent operations of the Chinese campaign, he served in the boats at the capture of the barrier-fortifications at Macao, 19 Aug. 1840; also at the reduction of Tycocktow and capture of the Bogue forts, 7 Jan. and 26 Feb. 1841; and on many occasions was actively engaged in watching fire-rafts and otherwise. Lieut. Baker invalided home in the spring of 1841, in consequence of ill-health, produced by the effects of the climate, on board the Melville 72, Capt. Rich. Saunders Dundas; and was advanced to the Rank of Commander 9 Nov. 1846. Agents- Goode and Lawrence.
BAKER. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 23.)
George Baker, born 3 May, 1795, in London, is third son of the late Sir Robt. Baker, of Montague Place, Russell Square, formerly Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, and Treasurer of the County of Middlesex, by Harriet, fourth daughter of Anthony Aufrère, Esq., of Hoveton Hall co. Norfolk, and niece, maternally, of John Norris, Esq., of Wilton Place, in the same county, founder of the Norrisian Professorship at Cambridge. Commander Baker, who has two brothers in the Hon. E.I.C.’s army, is cousin of Hon. Capt. Wodehouse, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amazon 38, Capt. Wm. Parker, with whom, until Feb. 1812, he was actively employed, the last two years as Midshipman, in blockading the French ports in the Bay of Biscay, and in co-operating with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. He was then transferred to the Northumberland 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, and, on 22 of the following May, assisted at the destruction, after a gallant engagement of some hours, in which the British sustained a loss of 5 men killed and 28 wounded, of the two French 44-gun frigates Arienne and Andromaque and 18-gun brig Mameluke, under a galling fire from the batteries at the entrance of L’Orient. From Jan. 1813, until the receipt of his first commission, which bears date 7 March, 1815, Mr. Baker further served, chiefly as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Pembroke 74, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Sir Harry Neale, Salvador Del Mundo first-rate, Capt. Jas. Nash, Vengeur 74, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, Superb 74, bearing the flag of Hon. H. Hotham, Pactolus 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, Superb again, and Cyrus 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll. He served during that period on the Home and North America stations, and was present in the Superb off the coast of France on the occasion of Buonaparte’s surrender after the battle of Waterloo, to whom, in common with the other officers of the ship, when visited by the Emperor, he had the honour of being introduced. His next appointments were – 20 Nov. 1818, to the Dauntless 20, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner – and, 11 May, 1320, as First Lieutenant, to the Leander 50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, both on the East India station, whence he returned to England in July, 1822. He subsequently held a command in the Coast Guard from 6 July, 1836, to 5 July, 1839; and on 18 Dec. 1841, was appointed to the Lily 16, in which sloop he sailed for the Cape station, and had the good fortune, in March,
