Baker, THOMAS

Baker, THOMAS, antiquary, was born at Lancaster, Durham, in 1656, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. As a non-juror, he lost in 1690 the rectory of Long-Newton, and in 1717 his fellowship, but he spent the last fifty years of his life at his old college, dying there in 1740. He published Reflections on Learning, and made valuable MS. collections on the history of the university, amounting to 42 folio volumes; whilst his History of St John's College was edited by Professor Mayor in 1867.