Baker, Sir Henry Williams

Baker, Sir Henry Williams an English clergyman and poet, was born in London, May 21, 1821, being the son of a baronet. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1844; was ordained deacon the same year, presbyter in 1846, became vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire, in 1851, and died there, February 11, 1877. Besides writing some essays, he was one of the editors of Hymns Ancient and Maodern (Lond. 1861, 1868, 1874), which contains several of his own composition.