Dictionary of Indian Biography/Baker, Sir Thomas Durand
BAKER, SIR THOMAS DURAND (1837–1893)
Son of Rev. John Durand Baker, Vicar of Bishop's Pawton, Devon: born March 23. 1837: educated at Cheltenham: entered the 18th Royal Irish regt., 1854: served in the Crimea, 1854–6: in the Indian mutiny was with the Central India Field Force: passed the Staff College, 1862: in the New Zealand war, 1863–67: was Assistant Adjutant and Q.M.G. in Ashanti Expedition, 1873–4, and Chief of the Staff: C.B.: A.D.C. to the Queen: attached to the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish war, 1877: Military Secretary to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1878: in 1879, commanded a Brigade under Lord Roberts, through the Kuram to Kabul, commanded at Charasia Oct. 6, 1879, and was engaged in many of the fights near Kabul: was in Lord Roberts' Kabul- Kandahar march, Aug., 1880, and the battle of Kandahar: K.C.B. 1881: in the Boer War 1881 as Brig-General: in 1884 was Adjutant-General in India: in the Burmese expedition, 1886–7: commanded a Division in Bengal, 1887–90: Q.M.G. of the Army, 1890: Lt-General, 1891: died at Pau, Feb. 9 1893.