Donald Baker (bishop)

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Donald Baker (1882 – 19 June 1968) was the Anglican Bishop of Bendigo from 1920 until 1938.Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1948

He was born in 1882 in Portsmouth and educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.Baker, Rt Rev. Donald, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U50323, accessed 26 May 2012] After curacies in Cambridge, Sydney and Summer Hill, New South Wales he was Rector of St George's Hobart from 1913 to 1920 when he was ordained to the episcopate.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4632802 National Library of Australia]

He was for 15 years principal of Ridley Theological College, retiring in early 1953.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206118144 |title=Bishop Baker Farewelled |newspaper=The Age |issue=30,505 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 February 1953 |accessdate=28 July 2022 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Rev. Harold Napier Baker (c. 1877–1950), rector of St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney 1919–1945, was a brother.