Anthony St. John Baker Explained

Anthony St. John Baker
Birth Date:	1785
Death Date:	May 16, 1854
Death Place:	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Serviceyears:	1812–1832

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.

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 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

	♦ Edward Nicolls
	♦ Impressment
	♦ Navigation Acts
	♦ Treaty of 1818

British Peace Treaty Commission at Ghent, United Netherlands

William Adams

James Gambier

Henry Goulburn

U.S. Secretary of State Letters of Anthony St. John Baker

• Web site: Monroe . James . April 1, 1815 . James Monroe to Anthony S. Baker, April 1, 1815 . Series 2, Additional General Correspondence, 1780-1837 . United States Library of Congress.
• Web site: Baker . Anthony St. John . April 3, 1815 . Anthony S. Baker to James Monroe, April 3, 1815 . Series 2, Additional General Correspondence, 1780-1837 . United States Library of Congress.
• Web site: Baker . Anthony St. John . July 7, 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.

• Web site: British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy (Washington, D.C.) . 2016819507 . United States Library of Congress.
• Web site: British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy at Connecticut Avenue (Washington, D.C.) . 96503313 . United States Library of Congress.
• Web site: British Legation ~ Great Britain Embassy at Connecticut and N Street, N.W. (Washington, D.C.) . 95507670 . United States Library of Congress.

External links

• • Web site: Anthony St. John Baker . Project of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art . History of Early American Landscape Design . Washington, D.C. . National Gallery of Art.
• Web site: America Under Fire: Aftermath . WhitehouseHistory.org . . War of 1812 Finale ~ Colonial America Second Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
• Web site: The Collection of Coins and Medals with Many Valuable Numismatic Books Formed by the Late Anthony St. John Baker, Esq. . December 20, 1854 . Internet Archive . S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson . 18–31.
• Web site: [{{google books|itN2AAAAMAAJ|plainurl=y}} The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 ]. Lossing . Benson John . 1869 . Google Books . Harper & Brothers . 951294 .
• Web site: The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 . Lossing . Benson John . 1869 . Internet Archive . Harper & Brothers . 951294.
• Web site: Extracts from the Navigation Acts: 1645-1696 . Great Britain . 1895 . Internet Archive . A. Lovell & Company.
• Web site: The Treaty of Ghent Medals . Homren . Wayne . CoinBooks.org . The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS).

Notes and References

1. Book: Papers Presented to Parliament in 1813 . Correspondence Relating to the War with the United States . Cannon-Row, Westminster-London, England . R.G. Clarke . 2027/mdp.39015019128985. 10013017.
2. Web site: [{{google books|4392AAAAMAAJ|plainurl=y}} The Diplomacy of the War of 1812 ]. Updyke . Frank Arthur . 1915 . Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty . Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History . Google Books . Johns Hopkins Press . 8138622 . 358–398 .
3. Web site: The Diplomacy of the War of 1812 . Updyke . Frank Arthur . 1915 . Chapter IX - Ratification and Reception of the Treaty . Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History . Internet Archive . Johns Hopkins Press . 8138622 . 358–398 .
4. Web site: Baker . Anthony St. John . July 28, 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..
5. Web site: [{{google books|8PuUtAEACAAJ|plainurl=y}} Mémoires D'un Voyageur Qui Se Repose: With Illustrations : in Four Parts ]. Baker . Anthony St. John . 1850 . London, England . T. Booker . English . Memoirs from a Traveler Who to Rest . 55899187 .