Air Marshal Sir John Darcy Baker-Carr, (13 January 1906 – 9 July 1998) was a senior

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commander during the early 1960s.

Origins

He was the second son of Brigadier General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltren Baker-Carr (1878–1949) and his first wife Sarah de Witt (1880–1969), daughter of William Russell Quinan who was in the explosives business with Kenneth Bingham Quinan (his nephew).

RAF career

Baker-Carr joined the Royal Air Force in 1929.Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Marshal Sir John Baker-Carr
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in the Technical Branch. After the war he was appointed Deputy Director of Personnel at the

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and then Station Commander at

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from 1953. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 41 Group in 1959 and then acting

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in early 1963 before retiring in 1964.

Family

On 30 June 1934 at

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, he married Margery Alexandra (1907–2003), daughter of Major-General Alistair Grant Dallas CB CMG. They had no children.

References

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