English colonial agent in India (1610–1683)
Aaron Eli Baker (1610–1683)[1] of Bowhay in the parish of Exminster,[2] near Exeter, Devon, was an English colonial agent of the Honourable East India Company, who served as the first President of the Madras Presidency (1652-1655). He was for the duration of twenty years President of Bantam in the East Indies.[3] He made a fortune in the East India trade.
- ^ Dates per inscription on his mural monument in Dunchideock Church
- ^ Lysons, Daniel & Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia, Vol.6, Devonshire, London, 1822, pp. 234-236 [1]
- ^ Per inscription on his mural monument in Dunchideock Church