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Baker (surname)
Baker is a common surname of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) origin and Scotland where Gaelic was anglicized. From England the surname has spread to neighbouring countries such as Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and also to the English speaking areas of the Americas and Oceania where it is also common. The gaelic form of Baker in Scotland and Ireland is ''Mac a' Bhacstair''. Some people with the surname have used DNA to trace their origins to Celtic countries and specifically to the Baxter sept of the Clan MacMillan in Scotland. It is an occupational name, which originated before the 8th century CE, from the name of the trade, baker. From the Middle English ''bakere'' and Old English ''bæcere'', a derivation of ''bacan'', meaning "to dry by heat". The bearer of this name may not only have been a baker of bread. The name was also used for others involved with baking in some way, including the owner of a communal oven in humbler communities. The female form of the name is '' Baxter'', which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sept
A sept is a division of a family, especially of a Scottish or Irish family. The term is used in both Scotland and Ireland, where it may be translated as ''sliocht'', meaning "progeny" or "seed", which may indicate the descendants of a person (for example, ''Sliocht Bhriain Mhic Dhiarmada'', "the descendant of Brian MacDermott"). The word may derive from the Latin ''saeptum'', meaning "enclosure" or "fold", or via an alteration of "sect". Family branches ''Síol'' is a Gaelic word meaning "progeny" or "seed" that is used in the context of a family or clan with members who bear the same surname and inhabited the same territory,"Septs of Ireland" Irish Septs Association. as a manner of distinguishing one group from another; a family called ''Mac an Bháird'' ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Baker (poet)
Alan Baker (born 1958) is British poet. He has been the editor of the poetry publisher Leafe Press since 2000, and the online magazine ''Litter'' since 2005. Life Baker was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1958, and in 1985 he moved to Nottingham, where he still lives. In the late 1990s he encountered the email discussion group British-poets, which introduced him to the poets associated with the British Poetry Revival. He founded Leafe Press in 2000, and is now co-editor (with American poet John Bloomberg-Rissman) and is editor of its associated webzine ''Litter''. Leafe Press has published work by Kelvin Corcoran, Carrie Etter, Geraldine Monk, and Lee Harwood, among others, and more recently, work by American, French and Mexican poets, and by the Moroccan Abdellatif Laâbi. Poetry Baker published a series of poetry pamphlets between 1999 and 2009; in 2008, Bamboo Books published his translation of Yves Bonnefoy's ''Début et Fin de la Neige'', and in 2011 Skysill Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Baker (veteran)
Alice Baker (28 July 1898 – 2 March 2006) was a British World War I service veteran. She was one of the last known female British World War I veterans in the UK. Her non-combat service was as a Leading Aircraftswoman in the Royal Flying Corps at the age of 18 as a 'doper' waterproofing aircraft wings. Biography She was born in 1898 in Costessy, near Norwich in England. After the war, she became a nurse at Saint Andrew's hospital in Thorpe. She married a police officer named Stanley. They had a son, Leslie, who was a pilot during World War II. He served in the RAF and as a bomber pilot. At the age of 94, she was invited for the 75th anniversary of the RAF, and stood next to Queen Elizabeth II. On Alice's 100th and 107th birthdays, RAF Coltishall pilots did commemorative flypasts in her honour. She lived with her family in Hempnall until she was 104, then moved to a care home in Ditchingham Ditchingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Baker (academic)
Alfred Baker (1848 – October 27, 1942) was a Canadian academic. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was its president from 1915 to 1916. Biography Born in Toronto, of Yorkshire parents, Baker was educated at the Toronto Grammar School and University of Toronto. He was appointed a mathematical tutor in University College, University of Toronto in 1875 and was a registrar in 1880. Baker was a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ... and was chair of mathematics from 1887 until 1919. References 1848 births 1942 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of Toronto alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto {{Canada-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Joseph Baker
Alfred Joseph Baker (10 February 1846 – 3 January 1900) was an English amateur sportsman who scored England's goal in the first representative match against a Scottish XI in March 1870. By profession, he was an auctioneer. Family He was born in Willesden, London, the son of Henry Baker and Margaret Puddicombe. On his baptism record, his father's occupation was given as "auctioneer". He married Marion Ellen Sayers on 16 September 1871. They had several children, including: *Maud Marion Baker (1872–1960) *Alfred Henry Baker (1873–1903) *Beatrice Ellen Baker (born c.1874) *Ralph Baker (b. 1875), educated at Harrow and Tonbridge Schools. *Marion Kate Baker (b. 1877) *Hubert Samuel Baker (1886–c.1973) Athletics Baker was a champion athlete who won the 100-yard dash at the 1870 AAA Championships; his achievement "raised himself to the first rank of sprint runners". In 1894, he was described as "probably the fastest Londoner over the distance until quite recent times"; his sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Baker
Alfred Baker (27 April 1898 – April 1955) was an English footballer. Playing career Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Baker was originally a miner and played for various clubs in Derbyshire as an amateur, including Eastwood Rangers. During World War I he guested for Chesterfield, Crystal Palace and Huddersfield Town, although these appearances are not considered official. In 1919 he turned professional and signed for Arsenal; according to club legend, Arsenal manager Leslie Knighton signed Baker after meeting him at the pit where he worked, thus beating rivals for the player's signature who were waiting at his home. He made his debut for Arsenal against Newcastle United on 13 August 1919 (which was Arsenal's first-ever top flight game at Highbury). Baker played seventeen matches that season, but in 1920-21 he became a first-team regular; he also had trials for England, though it would be another seven years before he won a cap. A Utility player, "Doughy" (as he was nicknam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Baker (MP)
Alexander Baker (1611 – 4 August 1685) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Baker was the son of Alexander Baker, barber-surgeon of Channel Row, Westminster and his first wife Alice Jervoise, daughter of Edward Jervoise of Hampshire. He was baptised 25 July 1611. He was a student of Clifford's Inn in 1634 and became an attorney. He did not participate in the Civil War, although Oliver Cromwell used his house as quarters shortly before the trial of Charles I. In April 1660, Baker became a freeman of New Windsor and was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor Windsor may refer to: Places Australia * Windsor, New South Wales ** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area * Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland **Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Wi ... for the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Berkshire from August 1660 to 1661. In 1661, he stood aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Baker (Jesuit)
Alexander Baker (1582–1638), was an English Jesuit. Biography Baker was born in Norfolk in 1582. He entered the Society of Jesus about 1610 and was professed of the four solemn vows in 1627 and visited India twice as a missionary. Baker died on 24 August 1638 in London, where he had resided for many years. He reconciled the Rev. William Coke, a son of Sir Edward Coke, to the Catholic Church in 1615. Among the State papers is a manuscript by Baker in defence of the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration Baptismal regeneration is the name given to doctrines held by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican churches, and other Protestant denominations which maintain that salvation is intimately linked to the act of baptis ... as held by Catholics, showing its difference from the opinion of Protestants.(Domestic, James I, vol. clxxxix. No.25, under date 1625) References 1582 births 1638 deaths 17th-century English Jesuits People from Norfolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert "Ginger" Baker
Albert Wallace "Ginger" Baker (born c. 1951) is an Ulster loyalist who was convicted of four murders carried out by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), of which he was a leading member. He turned himself in to the police in 1973 after throwing a hand grenade into a bus transporting Catholic workmen in East Belfast, Northern Ireland, which killed one man. He admitted to this killing and those of three other Catholics the previous year, as well as 11 armed robberies. He was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the four murders. Baker claimed he was a British intelligence agent and member of the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF). He gave evidence against his former UDA associates, including Ned McCreery, in the murder trial of the "romper room" torture and killing of James McCartan on 3 October 1972. This made him Northern Ireland's first loyalist supergrass. Although McCreery had assisted in the torture of McCartan, Baker had actually carried out the shooting. Baker's testi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert William Baker
Albert William Baker (May 4, 1918 – March 6, 2008) was a Canadian aviator and aeronautical engineer. He was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000. . Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, based in The Hangar Flight Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, commemorates and honours those whose accomplishments in aviation contributed so much to Canada's development as a nation. Founded in 1973, the Hall of ... . Retrieved on 2008-04-29.
References * Oswald, Mary, They Led the Way, Wetaskiwin: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, 1999.External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Baker D'Isy
Albert Baker d'Isy (b. Paris 18 April 1906, d. 20 May 1968) was a French cycling journalist and author and the founder of the Grand Prix des Nations international time-trial. He is considered, in the French expression, "one of the most beautiful pens" of sports writing. Pierre Chany a contemporary, called him "The best sporting journalist of his generation."Penot, Christophe (1996), ''Pierre Chany, l'homme aux 50 Tours de France'', Éditions Cristel, Paris, p40 Biography Albert Baker d'Isy worked at ''L'Écho des Sports'', a sports newspaper which appeared erratically between 1904 and 1957. In 1934, he became one of its main cycling writers, along with René de Latour, who was also foreign correspondent of the British monthly, ''Sporting Cyclist''. By that time, he was also writing for the larger daily, '' Paris-Soir'', which he joined in 1931. With ''Paris-Soir''′s sports editor, Gaston Bénac, he created the Critérium National, a road race limited to French riders, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert J
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Albert (given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |