Early Life and Family
Baker was born 20 April 1921 in Willesden, north west London. He was the son of Major Reginald Poynton Baker (1896-1985) of Loddenden Manor, Staplehurst, Kent, and his first wife Gwendolyn Emily Christabel Baker nee Webb (1897-1962). Baker's father later became a successful movie producer based at Ealing Studios.
On 5 June 1948 Baker married Gloria Mae Heaton-Armstrong, daughter of Colonel Charles George William Stacpool Heaton-Armstrong, at Kensington.
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