Doris Jones-Baker

Doris Whipple Jones-Baker FSA FRSA (c. 1926–7 June 2020) was a British-American historian and folklorist.[1]

Doris Jones-Baker

FSA FRSA
Doris Jones-Baker in her house in 2013
Born1925 or 1926
Died (aged 94)
Occupation(s)Historian
Folklorist
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Folklore
Sub-disciplineMedieval history
Early modern history
Folklore
History of Hertfordshire

Career

Jones-Baker is a graduate of the University of California and George Washington University. She completed her PhD in history at University College London and held a fellowship at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.[2]

Doris initially worked for the US State Department as a historian before she moved to England with her husband, Lionel, in 1960. They settled in Whitwell, Hertfordshire.[3]

Jones-Baker published numerous articles and books on Hertfordshire history and folklore and English medieval graffiti.[1] She served on the council of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History, and the East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society. She was a co-editor of Hertfordshire Archaeology and served as a councillor and editorial member of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[1]

She was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in March 1982 and was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[1]

Select publication
  • Jones-Baker, D. 1974. Old Hertfordshire Calendar.
  • Jones-Baker, D. 1977. The Folklore of Hertfordshire.
  • Jones-Baker, D. 1987. Tales of Old Hertfordshire.
  • Jones-Baker, D. 1989. "Graffito drawing of a medieval window, Welbourn Church, Lincolnshire", Antiquaries Journal 69, 312-314.
  • Jones-Baker, D. 1990 A history of the Parish Church of St. Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire
  • Jones-Baker, D. (ed) 1991. Hertfordshire in History: Papers presented to Lionel Munby.

References
  1. "Fellows Remembered: Doris Jones-Baker FSA". SALON: Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter. No. 450. 16 June 2020.
  2. Jones-Baker, D. (1991). "Medieval and Tudor Musicians in Hertfordshire: The Graffiti Evidence". Hertfordshire in History: Papers Presented to Lionel Munby. pp. 22–45.
  3. "Whitwell's notorious seven". Hertfordshire Life. 5 November 2013.
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