Значение слова BAKER в Литературной энциклопедии

1) SIR RICHARD (1568-1645).-Historian and religious writer, studied law, was knighted in 1603, and was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1620. B. was the author of _The Chronicle of the Kings of England_ (1643), which was for long held as a great authority among the country gentlemen. It has, however, many errors. B. fell on evil days, was thrown into the Fleet for debt incurred by others, for which he had made himself responsible, and _d._ there. It was during his durance that the _Chronicle_ and some religious treatises were composed. The _Chronicle_ was continued by Edward Phillips, Milton's nephew, who became a strong Royalist.2) BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE (1821-1893).-Traveller, _b._ in London, and after being a planter in Ceylon, and superintending the construction of a railway between the Danube and the Black Sea, went with his wife, a Hungarian lady, in search of the sources of the Nile, and discovered the great lake, Albert Nyanza. B. was knighted in 1866, and was for 4 years Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin. His books, which are all on travel and sport, are well written and include _Albert Nyanza_ (1866), _Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia_ (1867).