History

Alexander Baker, Master of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, was buried in the north ambulatory of Westminster Abbey on 2 October 1635. But he has no monument and his gravestone seems never to have been marked. His father George (1540-1612), chief surgeon to Elizabeth I, was from Tenterden in Kent and his mother was Anne (Swayne). His uncle Peter was an admiral. Alexander's first wife Alice, daughter of Edward Jervys, had been buried in the Abbey on 2 December 1624. His second wife was widow Frances Pendleton (nee Grigg). He was surgeon to James I and a Justice of the Peace.

His granddaughter Mary, second daughter of Alexander of New Windsor in Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth (Farrar), married John Dugdale, son of Sir William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms, in the Abbey on 3 December 1662.

Further reading for George Baker:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004.