Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Baker

by John Hutchinson

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Sir John Baker,

Statesman,

Is said to have been born in Kent, but at what place is not stated, though it may have been at Sissinghurst, where he afterwards had an estate. He was bred for the law, and in 1526 was employed on an embassy to Denmark. Soon afterwards he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1545 became Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which office he continued till death his in 1558.

[See "Lodge's Illustrations of British History," and "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.]