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Tommy Baker (politician)
Thomas or Tom Baker may refer to: Entertainment * Thomas Baker (dramatist) (c. 1680–1749), English dramatist and lawyer * Thomas Baker (musician) (c. 1820–1888), English composer and producer of musical stage productions * Tom Baker (born 1934), British actor who played The Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' from 1974 to 1981 * Tom Baker (American actor) (1940–1982), American actor Military * Sir Thomas Baker (Royal Navy officer) (1771–1845), British admiral * Sir Thomas Durand Baker (1837–1893), British general * Thomas Baker (aviator) (1897–1918), Australian soldier and aviator of the First World War * Thomas Baker (Medal of Honor) (1916–1944), American World War II Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Baker (American general) (born 1935), United States Air Force general Politics * Thomas Cheseman (or Thomas Baker, c. 1488–c. 1536), English Member of Parliament for Rye, 1523 * Thomas Baker (Arundel MP) (died 1625), English Member of Parliament for Arundel, 1601 * Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (dramatist)
Thomas Baker (c. 1680 – 1749) was an English dramatist and lawyer. Life Baker is said to have been the son of an eminent attorney of London, and is said to have been educated in Oxford. A disparaging estimate of his character and his powers is furnished in the ''List of Dramatic Authors with some Account of their Lives'', attributed to John Mottley (the compiler of ''Joe Miller's Jests''), which appears at the close of Thomas Whincop's tragedy of ''Scanderbeg''. According to this rather prejudiced authority, Baker 'was under disgrace' with his father, 'who allowed him a very scanty income,' and was compelled to retire into Worcestershire, where he lived as a schoolmaster and vicar until his death in 1749. His successor at Bolnhurst, John Jones, remarked in private papers that he was "A man of strange turn, imperious and clamorous upon topics of no service towards the promoting of true religion in his parish, and not a little addicted to stiff and dividing principles".M/s 39B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (missionary)
Thomas Baker (6 February 1832 – 21 July 1867) was a Methodist missionary in Fiji, known as being the only missionary in the archipelago to be killed and eaten, along with seven of his Fijian followers. The incident occurred in the Navosa Highlands of western Viti Levu in July 1867, and the rock used to kill Baker is still displayed in the village of Nabutatau. The soles of his leather sandals, which were also cooked by the cannibal tribe, are preserved at the Fiji Museum in Suva. Records show that Baker was killed and eaten as a result of him touching a chief's head, which is considered disrespectful in Fijian culture. Final mission In July 1867, Baker led a party into the interior of Viti Levu, passing through the Taukei ni Waluvu's Christian enclave on the East bank of the Wainimala River. When Baker met a local chief of Navatusila, Baker presented a British comb as a gift and attempted to persuade him to convert to Christianity. When the chief refused, Baker decided to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (college President)
Thomas Stockham Baker (March 28, 1871 – April 7, 1939) was an American scholar and educator who served as the second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Early life Thomas Stockham Baker was born in Aberdeen, Maryland on March 28, 1871, to Cornelia E. (née Stockham) and John H. Baker. He attended public schools in Baltimore County. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1891 with a Bachelor of Arts. He did graduate work at the University of Leipzig in Germany, then returned to Baltimore to complete his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1895. His thesis was titled ''America as the Poetical Utopia of Lenau and the Politico-Literary Ideal of Kürnberger and Young Germany''. Career He became a police reporter for the Baltimore News and then a music critic for the ''Baltimore Sun''. In 1895, he became an associate professor of German at Johns Hopkins. From 1900 to 1908, he taught German language and literature at Johns Hopkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker
Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker (14 November 1807 – 10 December 1886) was an English educationalist, social reformer, and ornithologist. Life Lloyd Baker was born in 1807, the only son of Thomas John Lloyd Baker (died 1841) of Hardwicke Court, Gloucestershire, and of Mary, daughter of William Sharp of Fulham, and niece of Granville Sharp. Like his father, Baker went to Eton and to Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1826 but did not graduate. He entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1828, qualified as a magistrate for Gloucestershire in 1833, and soon afterwards became a visiting justice at the county prison of Gloucester. On succeeding his father at Hardwicke Court in 1841, he took an active part in the administration of other local public institutions, was one of the founders of the Social Science Congresses, started what is known as the Berkshire system for the suppression of vagrancy, was president of the chamber of commerce, and captain of the Gloucestershire squadron of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (antiquarian)
Thomas Baker (14 September 1656 in Lanchester, Durham – 2 July 1740) was an English antiquarian. Life He was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the English Civil War by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots. Thomas was educated at the free school at Durham, and went on to St John's College, Cambridge, where he later obtained a fellowship. Lord Crew, bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of Long Newton in his diocese in 1687, and intended to give him that of Sedgefield with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read James II's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from William III's Act of Indemnity. Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716/1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (mathematician)
Thomas Baker (1625?–1689) was an English mathematician notable for producing a solution of biquadratic equations. Biography Baker is said to have been fifteen years old when he became a battler at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1640. In spite of the puritanical education which, according to Wood, he received at the hall, 'he did some little petite service for his majesty within the garrison of Oxon.' It does not appear what was the nature of the 'little employments' through which, according to the same authority, he became 'minister' of Bishop's Nympton, in Devonshire. He was collated to the vicarage of Bishop's Nympton in 1681; but he seems to have lived for some years previously in that retired spot (perhaps as curate). His secluded life—as much of it at least as could be spared from professional occupations and the cares of a family—was devoted to mathematical studies. He speaks of himself as one 'who pretend(s) not to learning nor to the profession of the mathematic art, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (cricketer)
Thomas Michael Baker (born 6 July 1981, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England) is an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and Northamptonshire between 2001 and 2005. Baker is a right-handed tail order batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler. In his solitary first-class appearance, for Northamptonshire against Leicestershire at Grace Road in 2005, Baker scored a duck in his only innings, caught by Darren Maddy off Claude Henderson, and took the wicket of Darren Robinson, caught and bowled for 139, at a match cost of 55 runs. He played four List A matches for Yorkshire in 2001, three in the Benson & Hedges Cup and one in the National League. He also played for Northamptonshire in a one-day game against the touring Sri Lankans in 2002, and for the Northamptonshire Cricket Board against the Yorkshire Cricket Board in the preliminaries for the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy. He took five wickets for 194 in these matches, with a best of 2 for 13 against Derbyshire Derbyshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (bowler)
Tom Baker (born September 12, 1954, Buffalo, New York) is a professional bowler in the Professional Bowlers Association and a member of the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame. He has won 10 titles on the regular PBA Tour (including one major), and 12 more on the PBA50 Tour (formerly PBA Senior Tour). He currently resides in King, North Carolina. PBA career After winning his first title in 1980, Baker had an outstanding 1981 season, winning three titles and over $103,000 that year. By 1986, he had won 7 PBA titles before going on a 10-year winless streak, partially due to recurring wrist injuries. In 1996, he returned to the winner's circle at the AC-Delco Classic, and won again in 1997 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After another 7-year drought, he shocked the bowling world by winning the 2004 PBA World Championship at age 49. At the time, Baker was the oldest player to win a PBA major, though that mark has since been surpassed by Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Pete Weber, both of whom wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baker (footballer)
Thomas George Baker (6 April 1936 – 23 April 2024) was a Welsh international footballer who was in Wales squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Club career Originally a winger, Baker joined Plymouth Argyle as a teenager in the early 1950s. He made his first team debut in October 1954, but appeared sporadically over the next three years, as he developed his game playing for the club's reserve team in the Plymouth & District, Devon Wednesday, and Football Combination Leagues."George Baker" Greens on Screen. Retrieved 24 January 2010. He became a first team regular in 1958, and played an important part in the club's Third Division title campaign a year later. After tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (1960s Pitcher)
Thomas Henry Baker (May 6, 1934 – March 9, 1980) was a left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs in 1963. Career In , Baker was signed as an amateur free agent by the St. Louis Cardinals. After years in the Cardinals system, he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics in the minor league draft in 1959. However, two years later, he was again in the minor league draft, this time being drafted by the Baltimore Orioles. In 1963, Baker was sent to the Washington Senators as part of a conditional deal, but did not stay in Washington long. On March 26, 1963, just about three months after being sent to the Senators, he was sent back to the Orioles and was purchased by the Chicago Cubs about two months later, on May 27, 1963. It was in Chicago where Baker spent the remainder of his career. Baker made his major league debut on August 2, 1963, with the Cubs at age 29. On that day, he faced only one batter, Willie McCovey, and was pulled after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (1930s Pitcher)
Thomas Calvin Baker (June 11, 1913 – January 3, 1991), nicknamed "Rattlesnake", was an American Major League Baseball player. He was a pitcher for four seasons (1935–38) with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. Baker died in 1991 and was interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas along with Pete Donohue and Jackie Tavener. References External links *Tom Baker statson the San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ... website 1913 births 1991 deaths Brooklyn Dodgers players New York Giants (baseball) players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Victoria County, Texas Jersey City Giants players Springfield Nationals players Greenville Spinners players 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (footballer, Born 1905)
Thomas William Baker (17 August 1905 – 30 March 1975), sometimes known as Billy Baker, was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Brentford, Southport, Northampton Town and Rochdale. Career A goalkeeper, Baker began his career in his native North East with Northern League clubs Usworth Colliery, Crook Town, Shotton Colliery Welfare and Chilton Colliery Recreation. He later earned a move to the Football League with Southport, for whom he made 65 appearances before departing in 1932. Baker signed for Third Division South club Brentford in 1932 on a free transfer. Originally signed by manager Harry Curtis as cover for Dave Smith, Baker quickly became Curtis' first-choice goalkeeper and held the position until January 1934, when Jack Clough took over. He made 43 appearances during the Bees' 1932–33 Third Division South title-winning season. Baker left Brentford at the end of the 1933–34 season and made 65 appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |