George Baker (died 1723) of

Crook Hall Crook Hall, sited near Lanchester, County Durham, some north west of the city of Durham, was one of two Roman Catholic seminaries which temporarily replaced the Douai seminary in Douai, France when that college was suppressed soon after the Frenc ...

, Lanchester and Elemore, county Durham, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1713 to 1722. Baker was the only son of George Baker of

and his wife Elizabeth Davison, daughter of Samuel Davison of Wingate Grange, county Durham. He was the nephew of Thomas Baker the antiquarian. He succeeded his father who died in 1699 and rebuilt Crook Hall. Before 1713, he married Elizabeth Conyers, daughter of

Thomas Conyers Thomas Conyers (ca. 16664 October 1728) of Elemore Hall, County Durham was an English Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1695 and 1708 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1727. Early life Conyers was th ...

of Elemore. Baker was returned unopposed with his father in law as

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for Durham City at the 1713 general election. They were both returned unopposed at the 1715 general election. He was a Tory and like his father in law voted against the administration. He did not stand at the 1722 general election. Baker died, at Bristol, on 1 June 1723, and was buried at Lanchester on the 12 June. He and his wife had two sons and two daughters, but only one of each survived. Their son George was responsible for the rebuilding of

Elemore Hall Elemore Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now in use as a residential special school, near Pittington, County Durham, England. It is a Grade I listed building. History The manor of Elemore was owned prior to the Dissolution of the Mon ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, George 1723 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for City of Durham British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722