Alexander Baker

Alexander Baker, Master of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, was buried in the north ambulatory of Westminster Abbey on 2nd 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 (or Jervoise), had been buried in the Abbey on 2nd December 1624. Their children were Alexander, Henry, John, Alice, Mary, Ann and Winifred. Alexander was baptised at St Margaret's Westminster on 25th July 1611 and Henry was baptised there on 22nd September 1614. Winifred married Sir Edward Widnell, and Ann married Thomas Packington in St Margaret's Westminster on 21st January 1620.

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 his son Alexander (1611-1685) M.P. of New Windsor in Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth (Farrar), married John (later Sir John) Dugdale, son of Sir William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms, in the Abbey on 3rd December 1662. Mary was buried at Windsor in 1671.

Further reading for George Baker

His will is in the National Archives.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004.