Anthony St. John Baker

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
Born1785
DiedMay 16, 1854
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Allegiance
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1812–1832
Other work

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
♦ 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

William Adams
James Gambier
Henry Goulburn

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

British Legation in Washington, D.C.
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