Sir Richard Baker (by 1530 – 27 May 1594), was an English politician.

Family

Richard Baker was the eldest son of Sir John Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer and his second wife Elizabeth Dineley. He had a younger brother,

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ...

, and three sisters, one of whom, Cecily, was the wife of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.

Career

Baker studied law at the

Inner Temple The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional associations for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and ...

. He succeeded his father in 1558, and was knighted on 31 August 1573. He was elected a

Member Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ...

(MP) of the

Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised ...

for Horsham in April 1554, Lancaster in November 1554, New Romney in 1555 and New Shoreham in 1558. He was a Justice of the Peace for Kent from 1558 and appointed

High Sheriff of Kent The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrum ...

for 1562–63 and 1582–83.

Marriages and issue

Baker married firstly Katherine Tyrrell, the stepdaughter of

Sir William Petre Sir William Petre (c. 1505 – 1572) (pronounced ''Peter'') was Secretary of State to three successive Tudor monarchs, namely Kings Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary I. He also deputised for the Secretary of State to Elizabeth I. Educate ...

. She was the daughter and heiress of John Tyrrell (d.1540), esquire, of Heron in

East Horndon East Horndon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of West Horndon, in the south of the borough of Brentwood in Essex in the East of England. It is situated just south of the A127 road near Herongate. The village Church of Al ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, (eldest son of Sir Thomas Tyrrell and Constance Blount), and his wife, Anne Browne,Anne Browne (1509-10 March 1582), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: Brooke-Bu, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct ''Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England'' (1984)
Retrieved 9 July 2013. the daughter of Sir William Browne,

Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional pow ...

, by his second wife, Alice Keble (d. 8 June 1521), the daughter of Henry Keble (1452 - April 1517),

, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. Baker married secondly Mary, the daughter of John Gifford of Weston Subedge,

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

, with whom he had another 2 daughters. He was succeeded by his son

Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

. One of his daughters by Mary was Chrysogna Baker (d. 1616) who married Sir Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre and had issue.

Footnotes

References

* * *

External links

Will of Sir Richard Baker of Cranbrook, Kent, proved 13 June 1594, PROB 11/84/37, National Archives
Retrieved 10 July 2013 1594 deaths Members of the Inner Temple High Sheriffs of Kent English MPs 1554 English MPs 1554–1555 English MPs 1555 English MPs 1558 Year of birth uncertain {{16thC-England-MP-stub