Anthony St. John Baker (1785 – 16 May 1854) was a British diplomat and Royal Navy officer serving in His Majesty's Foreign Service during England's Regency era.
Anthony St. John Baker | |
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| Born | 1785 |
| Died | May 16, 1854 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |
| Allegiance | |
| Service/ |  Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1812–1832 |
| Other work |
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Biography edit
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 March 4, 1812.[1]
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 December 27, 1814, Henry Carroll and Anthony Baker, who possessed the British ratified peace treaty, boarded the British sloop ship HMS Favorite on January 2, 1815 for a voyage to Colonial America arriving in Lower New York Bay under a flag of truce on February 11, 1815.[2][3] 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.[4]
Royal Navy officer Anthony Baker authored an autobiography published in 1850 four years before his death occurring in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England on May 16, 1854.[5]
See also edit
| ♦ Adams–Onís Treaty | ♦ Edward Nicolls |
| ♦ HMS Forward (1805) | ♦ Impressment |
| ♦ James Monroe | ♦ Navigation Acts |
| ♦ Rush–Bagot Treaty | ♦ Treaty of 1818 |
British Peace Treaty Commission at Ghent, United Netherlands
References edit
- ^ Papers Presented to Parliament in 1813 [Correspondence Relating to the War with the United States]. Cannon-Row, Westminster-London, England: R.G. Clarke. hdl:2027/mdp.39015019128985. LCCN 10013017.
- ^ Updyke, Frank Arthur (1915). "The Diplomacy of the War of 1812" [Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty]. Google Books. Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 358–398. OCLC 8138622.
- ^ Updyke, Frank Arthur (1915). "The Diplomacy of the War of 1812" [Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty]. Internet Archive. Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History. Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 358–398. OCLC 8138622.
- ^ Baker, Anthony St. John (28 July 1820). "Signed by Anthony St. John Baker to Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., Former British Ambassador to the United States". David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC.
- ^ Baker, Anthony St. John (1850). "Mémoires D'un Voyageur Qui Se Repose: With Illustrations : in Four Parts" [Memoirs from a Traveler Who to Rest]. London, England: T. Booker. OCLC 55899187.
U.S. Secretary of State Letters of Anthony St. John Baker edit
- Monroe, James (1 April 1815). "James Monroe to Anthony S. Baker, April 1, 1815". Series 2, Additional General Correspondence, 1780-1837. United States Library of Congress.
- Baker, Anthony St. John (3 April 1815). "Anthony S. Baker to James Monroe, April 3, 1815". Series 2, Additional General Correspondence, 1780-1837. United States Library of Congress.
- Baker, Anthony St. John (7 July 1815). "Anthony St. John Baker to James Monroe, July 7, 1815". General Correspondence and Related Items, 1775-1885. United States Library of Congress.
British Legation in Washington, D.C. edit
- "British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy (Washington, D.C.)". United States Library of Congress. LCCN 2016819507.
- "British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy at Connecticut Avenue (Washington, D.C.)". United States Library of Congress. LCCN 96503313.
- "British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy at Connecticut and N Street, N.W. (Washington, D.C.)". United States Library of Congress. LCCN 95507670.
External links edit
Media related to Treaty of Ghent at Wikimedia Commons- "Anthony St. John Baker" [History of Early American Landscape Design]. Project of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.
- "America Under Fire: Aftermath" [War of 1812 Finale ~ Colonial America Second Revolutionary War with Great Britain]. WhitehouseHistory.org. White House Historical Association.
- "The Collection of Coins and Medals with Many Valuable Numismatic Books Formed by the Late Anthony St. John Baker, Esq". Internet Archive. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson. 20 December 1854. pp. 18–31.
- Lossing, Benson John (1869). "The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812". Google Books. Harper & Brothers. OCLC 951294.
- Lossing, Benson John (1869). "The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812". Internet Archive. Harper & Brothers. OCLC 951294.
- Great Britain (1895). "Extracts from the Navigation Acts: 1645-1696". Internet Archive. A. Lovell & Company.
- Homren, Wayne. "The Treaty of Ghent Medals". CoinBooks.org. The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS).
