Sir George Baker, The Queen's Surgeon

Not the son of Capt. Christopher Baker

George Baker (1540–1612), was an English surgeon notable for writing and translating a number of early medical texts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Baker_(surgeon)

Baker was a member of the Barber Surgeons' Company and was elected master in 1597. In 1574, when he published his first book, Baker was attached to the household of the Earl of Oxford, and the writings of his contemporaries show that he had already attained to considerable practice in London. Banester of Nottingham speaks of his eminence in Latin verse:— Ergo Bakere tuum superabit sidera nomen, Atque aliqua semper parte superstes eris. And Clowes, another contemporary, prophesies the lasting fame of his works in English verse of the same quality. The apex of his career was serving as the personal surgeon to Queen Elizabeth I.

Medical History , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 203 - 211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300045397

George Baker was born in 1540, the second son of Christopher Baker of Tenterden, Kent. His grandfather was John Baker of Tenterden, and his great grandfather was Simon Baker of Haversham. He had a younger brother William and an elder brother Peter, the latter an admiral of the Blue Squadron, and died a prisoner of war in Spain.

Baker married twice. His first wife was Anne, daughter of William Swayne of Hacking, Middlesex. They had four children: Alexander, JP, Master of the Company in 1622, surgeon to James I,d. 1635 and buried in Westminster Abbey; Frances, Dowglas, and Ann.

His second wife was Anne, daughter of or possibly widow of Paul French, a prebend of Windsor. They had three children: George, Grace, and Elizabeth (typewritten biography).

SERGEANT SURGEONS TO THEIR MAJESTIES. Thomas Vicary Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 29th October 1959 by Henry R. Thompson, F.R.C.S. Surgeon, St. Mark's Hospital; Master of the Worshipful Company of Barbers < PDF > page 9.

George Baker was the last of the Elizabethan sergeant surgeons and per- haps an incident in his life may illustrate that Barber sergeant surgeons were spirited men with a descriptive vocabulary and the necessary courage to back it up.

William Clowes, who held a minor surgical appointment to Queen Elizabeth, apparently referred to George Baker as " a great bug- bear, a stinging gnat, a venomous wasp and a counterfeit crocodile," and in the Minutes of the Company of March, 1577, there is an entry-" Here at this Court was a great contention and strife spoken of and ended be- tween George Baker and William Clowes, for that they both, contrary to order and the good and wholesome rules of this house, misused each other and fought in the fields together. But the Master, Warden and Assistants, wishing they might be and continue loving brothers, pardonned this great offense in hope of amendment.” The outcome of the brawl,,and whether conciliation was achieved, remain unrecorded.

From http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/a/l/Kevin-Howard-Walters/WEBSITE-000...

Alexander Baker (son of George Baker and Ann Swaine) was born March 11, 1572/73 in London, Middlesex, Eng., and died 1620 in England.

He married Frances Grigg on August 24, 1592 in London, Eng., daughter of Michael Grigg.

Notes for Alexander Baker:

Justice of Peace, Middlesex County.

Colonial Families of the US, Page 28. Author: George Norbury Mackenzie, LL.B. has nothing about him at all see for yourself" https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058675869;view=1up;seq=42

Children:

• 1. John
• 2. Alexander of Cliffords Inn, London
• 3. Henry
• 4. Alice, m. Henry Seamer
• 5. Mary, m. Charles Havers
• 6. Ann. ,. Thomas Packington
• 7. Wunnefred, m. Edward Widnaff

Source: Seven Hundred Ancestors, Page 12, Author: Lewis Keeler Leaonard, Call Number: CS71.L58.

More About Alexander Baker and Frances Grigg: Marriage: August 24, 1592, London, Eng.. Children of Alexander Baker and Frances Grigg are:

• Alexander Baker, b. 1607, Cliffords Inn, London, Eng.,

References

• The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635. Made by Sr. Henry St. George, kt., Richmond herald, and deputy and marshal to Sr. Richard St. George, kt., Clarencieux king of armes. “Baker.” Page 39. < Archive.Org >
• The visitation of the county of Worcester, begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge dragon, in Trinity vacacon, 1682, and finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the said Rouge dragon, pursuivant, in Trinity vacacon, 1683, by virtue of several deputacons from Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux kinge of armes. “Baker of Feckenham.” Page 5-7. < Archive.Org >
• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1...
• page 782 of British Medical Journal. The Barber's Company and the College of Surgeons
• MedicalHistory, (1986) ,30:203-211. GEORGE BAKER: TRANSLATOR OF APARICIO DE ZUBIA'S PAMPHLET ON THE "OLEUM MAGISTRALE" by GUSTAV UNGERER. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 184.182.2.188, on 06 Jan 2022 at 00:46:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300045397 < PDF
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p6002.htm#... (Has errors)