Harold Baker (Liberal politician)

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Harold Trevor Baker PC (22 January 1877-12 July 1960), was a British scholar and Liberal politician.

Baker was elected to the House of Commons for Accrington in the January 1910 general election, a seat he held until 1918. He served in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1912 to 1914 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1915.

Baker died in July 1960, aged 83.

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] External link

• Harold Trevor Baker at the National Portrait Gallery

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Joseph Leese	Member of Parliament for Accrington 1910–1918	Succeeded by Ernest Gray
Political offices
Preceded by Harold Tennant	Financial Secretary to the War Office 1912–1915	Succeeded by Henry Forster