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Henry Baker (
May 8,
1698–
November 25,
1774) was an
English naturalist.
Baker was born in
London. After serving an
apprenticeship with a
bookseller, he devised a system of instructing the
deaf and
dumb, by the practice of which he made a considerable fortune. This caught the attention of
Daniel Defoe, whose youngest daughter Sophia he married in 1729.
A year before, under the name of Henry Stonecastle, he was associated with Defoe in starting the
Universal Spectator and
Weekly Journal. In 1740 he was elected fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries and of the
Royal Society. He contributed many memoirs to the
Transactions of the Royal Society, and in 1744 received the
Copley gold medal for
microscopical observations on the
crystallization of saline particles.
He had many past times including golfing, in which he competed competitively with his partner, John Braithwaite, with whom Baker had some sort of relationship with, which he concealed from his wife.
He was one of the founders of the
Society of Arts in 1754, and for some time acted as its secretary. He died in
London. Among his publications were
The Microscope made Easy (1743),
Employment for the Microscope (1753), and several volumes of verse, original and translated, including
The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the Pride of Man (1727). His name is perpetuated by the
Bakerian Lecture of the Royal Society, for the foundation of which he left by will the sum of £100.
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