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==Biography==
==Biography==
Baker was born in [[Guisborough]], the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker and died in Kew.
Baker was born in [[Guisborough]] in [[North Yorkshire]], the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in [[Kew]].


He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and [[Bootham School]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England|publisher=<!--Bootham Old Scholars Association-->BOSA|first=Jenny | last=Woodland |year=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=38296|title=Baker, John Gilbert|first=Ray|last=Desmond}}</ref> York.
He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and [[Bootham School]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England|publisher=<!--Bootham Old Scholars Association-->BOSA|first=Jenny | last=Woodland |year=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=38296|title=Baker, John Gilbert|first=Ray|last=Desmond}}</ref> York.


He then worked at the library and [[herbarium]] of [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including [[Amaryllidaceae]], [[Bromeliaceae]], [[Iridaceae]], [[Liliaceae]], and [[fern]]s. His published works include [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009083711 ''Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles''] (1877) and ''Handbook of the Irideae'' (1892).
He then worked at the library and [[herbarium]] of the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including [[Amaryllidaceae]], [[Bromeliaceae]], [[Iridaceae]], [[Liliaceae]], and [[fern]]s. His published works include [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009083711 ''Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles''] (1877) and ''Handbook of the Irideae'' (1892).


He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Baker, John Gilbert|magazine=Who's Who|year=1919|page=100|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=142}}</ref> Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/hannah-unthank_64687528 Hannah Unthank, mother of 3 - ancestry.com]</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85|title=List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex|year=1886|location=London|publisher=Society of Friends|page=85}}</ref>
He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Baker, John Gilbert|magazine=Who's Who|year=1919|page=100|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=142}}</ref> Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/hannah-unthank_64687528 Hannah Unthank, mother of 3 - ancestry.com]</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA85|title=List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex|year=1886|location=London|publisher=Society of Friends|page=85}}</ref>

Revision as of 11:25, 3 December 2022

John Gilbert Baker
FRS
John Baker
Born13 January 1834
Guisborough
Died16 August 1920
Kew[1]
NationalityEnglisch
BildungQuaker schools

Ackworth School

Bootham School
OccupationBotanist

John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).

Biography

Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in Kew.

He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and Bootham School,[2][3] York.

He then worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae, and ferns. His published works include Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles (1877) and Handbook of the Irideae (1892).

He married Hannah Unthank in 1860.[4] Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887.[5][6]

John G. Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.[7] He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1907.

Taxa named in honour

Several plant species with the epithet bakeriana or bakeranius and bakeranium have been named in honour of John G. Baker.[8]

Including;

Selected publications

  • Baker, J. G. (1874). "Revision of the Genera and Species of Tulipeae". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. xiv (76): 211–310. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1874.tb00314.x.
  • Baker, John Gilbert (1874). "A Classified Synonymic List of all the Known Crocuses, with their Native Countries, and References to the Works where they are Figured". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. 4 (14): 111–119.
The standard author abbreviation Baker is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

  1. ^ Britten, James (1920). Britten, James (ed.). "John Gilbert Baker (1834–1928)". The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 58. London: Taylor and Francis: 233–238 – via BHL.
  2. ^ Woodland, Jenny (2011). Bootham School Register. York, England: BOSA.
  3. ^ Desmond, Ray. "Baker, John Gilbert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38296. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "Baker, John Gilbert". Who's Who. 1919. p. 100.
  5. ^ Hannah Unthank, mother of 3 - ancestry.com
  6. ^ List of Members of the Quarterly Meeting of London & Middlesex. London: Society of Friends. 1886. p. 85.
  7. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Dr Ross Bayton RHS Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names (2019), p. 55, at Google Books
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Baker.


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