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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vii. APRIL 12, 1913.
REV. H. DE FOE BAKER (US. vii. 228, 260).
This was a son of the Rev. William Baker,
Rector of Lyndon and South Luffenham,
co. Rutland. He Was born 1789; St. Catha-
rine's College, Cambridge. B.A. 1811, M.A.
1814; Vicar of Greetham, Rutland, 4 Sept.,
1821, which living he held until 1844. He
Was Warden of Brown's Hospital, Stam-
ford, 1845. Died August, 1845, aged 56.
He married Harriet, daughter of Henry
Boulton, of Moulton, co. Lincoln, by his
third wife, Harriet (Henry Boulton married
five times), youngest daughter of the Rev.
Baptist Isaac of Whitwell, Rutland. Henry
De Foe Baker had a son, also Henry De Foe :
Jesus College, Cambridge, B.A. 1855, M.A.
1858; deacon 1855, priest 1856; curate of
Glooston, Leicestershire, 18558, curate of
Thruxton, Andover, 1859-73. Rector of
Thruxton 1873-96. Died March, 1896.
The Bakers lived, in the eighteenth cen- tury, at Lyndon, near Oakham. The con- nexion between the Bakers and Defoes is as follows : Henry Baker, F.R.S. (1698- 1774), born in Chancery Lane, London, originally a bookseller (portrait in Nichols's
- Literary Anecdotes ; ), afterwards a natu-
ralist and poet, went on a visit to a relative, John Forster, who had a daughter eight years old, born deaf and dumb. Baker instructed her so successfully by a special method of his own that Daniel Defoe, then a neighbour, invited him to his house. Henry Baker married, April, 1729, Sophia, Daniel Defoe's youngest daughter, and by her had two sons : David Erskine Baker (1730-67), portrait in S. Harding's ' Biographical Mirrour ' ; and Henry (1734- 1766). This Henry was a lawyer, and had a son William, born 1763, Rector of Lyndon, father of Henry, the man MR. LANE seeks to know about.
1828, 24 May. " At Lyndon, Rutland, died, aged 66, the Rev. William Baker, rector of that parish and South Luffenham, and an active magistrate for that county. He was descended from Daniel Defoe, and was grandson of Henry Baker, Esq., F.R.S., and nephew of David Erskine Baker. The deceased gentleman was much attached to science and mathematics, and particularly excelled in turnery." Vide Justin Simpson's ' Obits for Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton,' 1861, pp. 292-3.
187, Piccadilly, W.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
I think it very probable that he was a
son of Henry Baker, F.R.S., 1698-1774,
author of * The Microscope Made Easy ' and
other works, who married 30 April, 1729,
Sophia, youngest daughter of Daniel De
Foe. Henry Baker was originally a book-
seller. See Timperley's ' Dictionary of
Printers.' WM. H. PEET.
The Rev. Henry De Foe Baker resigned the vicarage of Greetham on being appointed Warden of Brown's Hospital, Stamford* where he died in 1845, leaving two children the Rev. Henry De Foe Baker and Harriet Elizabeth Baker.
The Rev. Henry De Foe Baker was after- wards of Thruxton, Hants.
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
[See also 2 8. viii. 197, 299.]
AUTHOR WANTED (US. vii. 229). I have not the original source at hand, but I believe it will be found that the statesman who, dying, said to his wife, " In thy face have I seen the Eternal," was Baron Chris- tian von Bunseii, sometime ambassador to this country. CHARLES T. PRICE.
Baron Bunsen, former Prussian Ambassa- dor in London, when dying at Bonn, Oct. Nov., 1860. See 'Life of Baron Bunsen,' ii. 389 (Longmans, 1869).
CHARLOTTE SIMPSON.
TOUCHET (10 S. ix. 288). Peter Touchet, who was admitted to Westminster School 21 Feb., 1766, and who "must have gone out to India, as his name appears on the Warren Hastings Cup in possession of the School," as stated by G. F. R. B. in his query, is in all probability identical with the Peter Touchet whose death is recorded as follows in The Gent. Mag. for 1814 (pt. i. p. 298, March) :
" Jan. 13. At Cheltenham, P. Touchet, esq., of Ayot St. Lawrence, Herts ; 15 years Com- mercial resident at Radnagore, on the Civil Establishment of the E.I. Company."
Peter Touchet married at Marylebone Church, 24 Feb., 1807 (being then described as " of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square "), Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Ford, 1st Bart., by Mary, eldest daughter of George Adams (who took the name of Anson, 30 April, 1773) of Orgreave, co. Stafford, by Mary, daughter of George, 1st Baron Vernon (Gent. Mag., 1807, pt. i. p. 179, February ; and Burke's ' Baronetage ' ).
On 20 July, 1816, Mrs. Touchet, "widow of the late Peter Touchet, esq., and sister of Sir Francis Ford, bart.," married, secondly, Capt. Henry Elton, R.X., third son of the Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, 5th Bart., by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir John
