D'Arcy Baker

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D'Arcy Richard Baker (1877-1932) was a British businessman and racing driver.

Baker was the managing director of Fiat in the UK.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/luxury/family-home-george-clooney-films-mark-ronson-parties-drawing/|title=The family home where George Clooney films, Mark Ronson parties and the drawing room is a makeshift Cabinet Office|first=Rosalind|last=Powell|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=6 November 2017|publisher=|accessdate=1 March 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/11th-april-1907/30/correspondence|title=Correspondence. - 11th April 1907 - The Commercial Motor Archive|author=|date=|website=archive.commercialmotor.com|accessdate=1 March 2018}}

In the early 1900s, he extensively renovated Hedsor House, a mansion he owned in Hedsor, Buckinghamshire. However, the expense led to his bankruptcy, and upon his death, his estate passed to his bankers, and then to the Shepherd family in 1934.{{cite web|url=http://www.hedsor.com/the-hedsor-blog/are-you-unwittingly-driving-a-formula-1-inspired-car-1|title=Are you unwittingly driving a Formula 1 inspired car?|author=|date=|website=hedsor.com|accessdate=1 March 2018}}

In 1908, at Brooklands, Frank Newton drove a 90hp Napier motor car for its Australian owner Selwyn Edge, who had a £500 bet with Baker that his car could go faster than Felice Nazzaro's Fiat. Unfortunately, the Napier suffered from mechanical trouble.{{cite book|author=Tanya A. Bailey|title=The First American Grand Prix: The Savannah Auto Races, 1908-1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImWWAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|accessdate=1 March 2018|date=15 May 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7697-8|pages=104–105}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2747148/A-different-way-of-racing-and-the-foreigners-invade.html|title=A different way of racing - and the foreigners invade|first=Doug|last=Nye|date=1 June 2007|publisher=|accessdate=1 March 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}

In 1911, at the age of 33, he was living at 18 Clarges Street, Mayfair, single, with two servants, and had one visitor, a Royal Navy officer, Oscar Valentin de Satge, the son of Oscar de Satge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW2T-59C|title=FamilySearch.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89N8-QNZG?i=87&cc=2228170|title=FamilySearch: Sign In}}

He died in 1932 in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, and his obituary was published on 15 March 1932 in the Gloucestershire Echo.{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVH6-WP7L|title=FamilySearch.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q26M-BFGH|title=FamilySearch.org}}