Harold Baker (Liberal politician)

Harold Baker (Liberal politician)

Harold Trevor Baker PC (22 January 1877-12 July 1960), was a British scholar and Liberal politician.

Baker was elected to the House of Commons for Accrington in the January 1910 general election, a seat he held until 1918. He served in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1912 to 1914 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1915.

Baker died in July 1960, aged 83.

References

* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]

External links

* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=as&occ=52%3BScholarship+and+Languages&lDate=&LinkID=mp72790 Harold Trevor Baker at the National Portrait Gallery]


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