Percy Baker

John Percy Baker (9 February 1871 – 28 December 1947) was Archdeacon of Warrington from 1934 until shortly before his death.[1]

This article is about the English clergyman. For the English first-class cricketer, see Percy Baker (cricketer). For English lawn bowler, see Edwin Percy Baker.

Baker was educated at Kimbolton Grammar School, King Edward's School, Birmingham, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge; and ordained in 1894.[2] He was a curate at St Aubyn, Devonport (1894–98) then St Andrew, Plymouth, (1898–1901); Vicar of Ellacombe (1901–09) then Mossley Hill (1921–35); Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral (1920–34); and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool (1928–44).[3]

Notes
  1. The Rev. J. P. Baker The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 30, 1947; pg. 6; Issue 50955.
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 52: Oxford, OUP, 1929
  3. ‘BAKER, Ven. Archdeacon John Percy’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 2 Aug 2015


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