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Sir William Baker (5 November 1705 – 23 January 1770) was an Baker Lake history
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1705 births 1770 deaths British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 Knights Bachelor Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Plympton Erle People from Hertfordshire (before 1965) Businesspeople from London Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company Politicians from London {{England-business-bio-stub
Sir William Baker (5 November 1705 – 23 January 1770) was an English
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merchant and politician, a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain
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and Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company
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.
He was the son of John Baker, a London draper. He became an Alderman of London in 1739 and a director of the East India Company
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in 1741–5, 1746–50 and 1751–53. He was also deputy chairman (1749, 1751–52), chairman (1749–50, 1752–53), Deputy Governor (1750-60) and the 11th Governor (1760–70) of the Hudson's Bay Company
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. He was knighted in 1760.
He was MP for Plympton Erle
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from 1747 to 1768. In 1759 he built a country house in an estate at Bayfordbury
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in Hertfordshire.
He died in 1770. He had married Mary, the daughter of Jacob Tonson, publisher, and with her had 6 sons and a daughter. His eldest son, also William Baker, who inherited and improved Bayfordbury, was also an MP.
The community Baker Lake in Nunavut
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, Canada
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was named after him./ref>
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1705 births 1770 deaths British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 Knights Bachelor Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Plympton Erle People from Hertfordshire (before 1965) Businesspeople from London Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company Politicians from London {{England-business-bio-stub