Anthony St. John Baker
Anthony St. John Baker was a British diplomat and Royal Navy officer serving in His Majesty's Foreign Service during England's Regency era.
Biography
During March 1809 to August 1812, British ministers to the United States Anthony Baker and Augustus Foster conveyed Great Britain's Chargé d'affaires administering correspondence to Viscount Castlereagh who became Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on 4 March 1812.Anthony S.J. Baker arrived in the United States in 1812 serving as Secretary of the British Legation. He was summoned in 1813 by the Parliament of Great Britain to serve as Secretary of a British Commission charged with arbitration of the Treaty of Ghent quelling the War of 1812. After ratification by George IV at the Carlton House on 27 December 1814, Henry Carroll and Anthony Baker, who possessed the British ratified peace treaty, boarded on 2 January 1815 for a voyage to America arriving in Lower New York Bay under a flag of truce on 11 February 1815. Upon Charles Bagot term as British Ambassador to North America in 1820, Anthony Baker remained in Colonial America fulfilling the role of British Consul General serving until 1832.
Royal Navy officer Anthony Baker authored an autobiography published in 1850 four years before his death occurring in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England on 16 May 1854.