Sherston-Baker baronets

The Baker, later Sherston-Baker Baronetcy, of Dunstable House in Richmond in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.[1] It was created on 14 May 1796 for Robert Baker, in honour of him raising and maintaining a cavalry regiment of 500 men styled "The Richmond Rangers" for King George III. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. The fourth Baronet was a Recorder of Helston and of Barnstaple and Bideford and a County Court judge. The fifth Baronet assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Sherston in 1923.[2] The Baker family was settled in the Westcountry several centuries before the creation of the baronetcy.[3] A version of the arms used by the Baker baronets (Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable five escallops erminois on a chief azure a lion passant of the third)[4] is displayed on the mural monument in Dunchideock Church in Devon of Aaron Baker (1620–1683) of Bowhay in the parish of Exminster, Devon, first President of the Madras Presidency.

  1. ^ "No. 13888". The London Gazette. 30 April 1796. p. 404.
  2. ^ "No. 32816". The London Gazette. 20 April 1923. p. 2937.
  3. ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p. 39
  4. ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p. 39