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George ’s first printed work, A Catalogue of Books, Poems, Tracts, and Small Detached Pieces, produced in an edition of just 20 copies appeared in 1810 11. Baker was one of the artists who recorded the song Shalom from Holland (written by Simon Hammelburg and Ron Klipstein) as a token of solidarity to the Israeli people, threatened by missiles from Iraq, during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Marefair was to be home of George Baker until 1851 and his sister Ann Elizabeth Baker until 1861. Why does it matter? The Bakers were a couple devoted to the history, culture and heritage of the town and county. There were several dimensions to their lives as we shall see. George Baker (1781-1851) At the early age of thirteen whilst he was a pupil of Mr Cornfield in Horsemarket, Northampton he had produced, in manuscript, a Life of Dr John Hinchcliffe (d. 1794), Bishop of Peterborough, 7 and a history of Northampton 8. After leaving school George became a wool-stapler like his father 9. He followed his antiquarian interests in his spare time, notably by assisting John Britton (1771-1857) with the Northamptonshire section of The Beauties of England and Wales. 10.

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Baker, George, and Walpole, Horace. A Catalogue of Books, Poems, Tracts, and Small Detached Pieces, Printed at the Press at Strawberry-Hill, Belonging to the Late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. [The Introduction Signed: G. B., I.e. George Baker.]. 1810. The band experienced a brief return to the international charts in 1992 when the song " Little Green Bag" was used in the title sequence of the film Reservoir Dogs and in Machos, a Chilean soap opera in 2003. The song is also featured in a Moto X smartphone commercial circa 2013. In between came the chance to run a regional repertory company, when, in 1965, Baker re-opened the fine 300-seat Regency Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, from which he sent out the Candida Plays company on tours as artistic director. Weary of hopping from one West End part to another, he tasted the joys of taking to people what he believed was good theatre. It was rash, but it was also fun, and he did it for six years. The main signs of his continuing existence to be seen in the West End came from a transfer to the St Martin's theatre from Bury of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince (1968), with Baker in the Laurence Olivier role of the Regent; and his tour of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (1971), led by Derek Jacobi, which reached the Old Vic. In 1978, Baker disbanded the Selection because "the pressure had become too much." The band has sold over 20 million records worldwide. However, Baker formed a new George Baker Selection in 1985, which stayed together till 1989. [7] The second version of the Selection has released twelve albums and several compilation albums.

Johannes " Hans" Bouwens (born 8 December 1944), known as George Baker, is a Dutch singer and songwriter who, with his band George Baker Selection, scored three international hits; " Little Green Bag" (1969), " Paloma Blanca" (1975) and " Santa Lucia by Night" (1985). A string of singles and albums followed; the second single, "Dear Ann," was such a success that Baker resigned from his job in the lemonade factory and became a full-time musician. Not all band members followed suit, and besides Bouwens, the "Selection" from mid 1970 was formed by Jan Visser, Jan Hop (drums), Jacques Greuter and George Thé (voice, guitar, bass). In March 1971 Jan Visser left the band to be replaced by Cor Veerman. [9] Besides scoring hits with his own Selection, he also wrote songs for others, including BZN, The Shoes, Andy Star, and Next One. In 1974, singer Lida Bond joined the Selection, and combining her voice with Baker's proved highly successful. [6] Whether these activities inspired him to do something better or purely fired his interest we do not know, but in 1815, aged 34, he issued proposals for his county history.

An edited version of this post was published in Northamptonshire Heritage Forum’s journal Hindsight in April 2022. These theological trends were important even at a local level as George and Ann Baker were to later become Unitarians themselves. They would have actually “crossed the road” in King street when they moved from King Street Independent to Kings Street Unitarian. Richard Baker owned property in Harpole but was the residence of his brother William (The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 1442) A Richard Baker was christened at Harpole on 30th October 1747 son of John and Elizabeth Baker. Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Harpole Parish Registers; Reference: 154P/3