Hi Wendy
First time using the Forum but HAD to get in contact. I am researching Oliver Baker so am really excited you have found the grave of his father and that it has an inscription to Oliver. Don't know whether you know but as well as being a talented artist exhibiting at the Royal Academy, and designing jewellery for Libertys, he was also an important antiquarian. Baker was a very active member of the the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, he also owned an antiques shop in Stratford-upon-Avon. Baker sold mostly 16th and 17th century furniture to amongst others Graham Baron Ash at Packwood House and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to furnish what was then known as Mary Arden's House. My personal interst is in his links to Selly Manor in Bournville, which is where I work. Baker advised Laurence Cadbury on what furniture to collect for the manor in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, and sold him quite a bit too.
Anyway, do you have a photograph or the Baker grave or a location so I can go and find it myself? Many thanks, Dan
First time using the Forum but HAD to get in contact. I am researching Oliver Baker so am really excited you have found the grave of his father and that it has an inscription to Oliver. Don't know whether you know but as well as being a talented artist exhibiting at the Royal Academy, and designing jewellery for Libertys, he was also an important antiquarian. Baker was a very active member of the the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, he also owned an antiques shop in Stratford-upon-Avon. Baker sold mostly 16th and 17th century furniture to amongst others Graham Baron Ash at Packwood House and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to furnish what was then known as Mary Arden's House. My personal interst is in his links to Selly Manor in Bournville, which is where I work. Baker advised Laurence Cadbury on what furniture to collect for the manor in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, and sold him quite a bit too.
Anyway, do you have a photograph or the Baker grave or a location so I can go and find it myself? Many thanks, Dan