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In 1973 Baker became a lecturer in law at University of Cambridge. He was appointed Reader in English Legal History at the University of Cambridge in 1983. In 1988 he was appointed Professor of English Legal History. From 1998 until 2011 he was
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His first marriage in 1968 was to Veronica Margaret Lloyd, with whom he had two daughters. They were divorced in 1997, and in 2002 he married Fiona Rosalind Holdsworth (née Cantlay), who died in 2005. He remarried in 2010 to
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His first academic post was as an assistant lecturer in law at University College London, in 1965. In 1967 he was promoted to Lecturer, and in 1971 moved to the University of Cambridge. There he was Librarian of the
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1998, Corresponding Fellow American Society for Legal History 1992, and Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the
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The Men of Court 1440 to 1550: A Prosopography of the Inns of Court and Chancery and the Courts of Law
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English Law Under Two Elizabeths: The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present (The Hamlyn Lectures)
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Baker was appointed a Fellow of University College London in 1991, awarded an Honorary LLD of the
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He was President of St Catharine's College, Cambridge until 2007 when he was succeeded by
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until 2011 (jointly with David Yale 1981–91, sole 1991–2011) when he was succeeded by Dr
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The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640: with an Edition of the Surviving Statutes and Orders
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An Inner Temple Miscellany: papers reprinted from the Inner Temple yearbook
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Monuments of Endlesse Labours: English Canonists and Their Work, 1300-1900
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The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History
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Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century
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The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law Tradition
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Catalogue of English Legal MSS in Cambridge University Library
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
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English Legal Manuscripts Formerly in the Collection of Sir
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Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume VI: 1483-1558
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The Legal Profession and the Common Law: Historical Essays
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in 1966 and was elected an Honorary Bencher in 1988.
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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