BAKER, Sir John, 2nd bt. (c.1608-53), of Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent, and Fleet Street, London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1608, 1st s. of Sir Henry Baker, 1st bt., of Sissinghurst, Kent and Catherine, da. of Sir John Smyth† of Ostenhanger. educ. Jesus, Camb. 11 June 1624, aged 16. m. Eleanor (d. 1639), da. of Sir Robert Parkhurst, mayor of London, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 4 Dec. 1623. d. 15 Jan. 1653.CB; Al. Cant.; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 63-4.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Gravesend Bridge to Penshurst, Kent 14 Oct. 1628;C181/3, f. 252. Wittersham Level, Kent and Suss. 16 Dec. 1629, 31 Mar. 1640;C181/4, f. 32; C181/5, f. 167. Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 15 Jan. 1630, 10 July 1639;C181/4, f. 37v; C181/5, f. 144. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 21 Aug. 1645.C181/5, f. 258v. Sheriff, Kent 1633–4.Hasted, Kent, i. 205. Commr. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 25 June 1641-aft. Jan. 1642.C181/5, ff. 204, 222. J.p. Kent by 23 Aug. 1641-aft. 22 Mar. 1642.PRO30/26/104, 23; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments Charles I ed. Cockburn, 409, 421. Commr. assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 18 Aug. 1642.Northants. RO, FH 133, unfol.

Parlimentarian

BAKER, Sir John, 2nd bt. (c.1608-53), of Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent, and Fleet Street, London.

: 2nd bt. (c.1608-53), of Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent 1608 – 53 and London., Fleet Street.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BAKER, Sir John, 2nd bt. (c.1608-53), of Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent, and Fleet Street, London.

Will

not found.

Estates

gained control of the family estates in 1631, inc. lands in Mdx., Essex, London (St Olave, Hart Street) and Suss., valued at £435 p.a.Cent. Kent. Stud. U24/T278, T426. By Oct. 1639 he owned a house next to the Horn tavern in Fleet Street, St Dunstan-in-the-West, Westminster.GL, MS 10344, unfol.; Hastings Museum, Suss. C/A(a)2, f. 88; CSP Dom. 1639-40, p. 556. During the 1640s owned property in Covent Garden.CCAM 181-2; SP19/90, ff. 1-7. By 1650, owned manor of Smalridge, Devon.C54/3548/9. At his death, estate valued at £2,000 p.a.HMC Lords, iii. 281.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

All Hallows, Bread Street, London, by Nov. 1632-aft. Jan. 1635.Bodl. Bankes 62, f. 12; Bankes 14, f. 23.

Religion

Baker controlled the living of St Olave, Hart Street, London until 1634, when he alienated it to the earl of Dorset.C54/3024/20.

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