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Raymond Baxter narrated The Story of Rolls-Royce, a 1988 film about the history of the world's most prestigous motor car, made by the RREC.
He was a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from 1979 to 1997, and Vice-President from 1987 to 1997. He became a Life Vice-President in 1997.
Raymond Baxter was a founder member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships - he owned one of the small vessels that evactuated British troops from the beaches - and its Honorary Admiral from 1982, and Honorary Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 1991. He was on the Council of the Air League from 1980 to 1985.
He was made an Honorary Freeman of the City of London in 1978 and awarded the OBE in 2003.
He married his American wife, Sylvia Kathryn Johnson, in 1945. They had a son, Graham, and a daughter, Jenny. Jenny is a fencing coach.
His wife Sylvia died in 1996.
He was the uncle of the American minimalist artist, Carl Andre.
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