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Baker's choice of staff helped improve the academic reputation at
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In 1920, Baker's mother allowed boarders to stay on a property that she owned in Hyde Park and 16 years later Baker's whole school moved in to that property. Baker's sister Amy ('Miss Dob') also was a teacher and a bursar and Baker's sister
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