John Baker III (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1407) was an English politician. Baker married Joan by 1395. He was apparently ‘of Whitford’, six miles from

Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Herita ...

. He had several run-ins with the law, in 1408 for 'illegal disseisin of land at

Colyford, Devon Colyford is a village in East Devon, England situated midway between Lyme Regis and Sidmouth on the A3052 road. To the north the village borders the town of Colyton and lies within the latter's civil parish boundaries. To the south is the seas ...

' and in July 1405, for 'fornication with Alice Benet'. He confessed and was fined, but in 1408, was being investigated for this same offence. Baker was a cloth merchant. He was MP for

in 1407.

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Year of birth missing Year of death missing 14th-century births 15th-century deaths Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lyme Regis 15th-century English businesspeople English MPs 1407 {{15thC-England-MP-stub