Английская Википедия:George Percival Baker
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox scientist George Percival Baker Шаблон:Postnominals[1] (1856–1951) was a textile merchant and manufacturer, collector of fabrics from India and Persia, amateur botanist, mountaineer, oarsman, and amateur photographer.[2]
Biography
George Percival Baker's father George Baker in 1848 designed and supervised the creation of the garden at the British Embassy at Constantinople and, after completing the work,[2] in Constantinople went into the trading business, including the export of Turkish carpets.[3] After education at a Franciscan monastery school[4] and then at a British school in Pera, G. P. Baker and his brother Harry were sent to England and continued their education at a private school in Knights Hill, Norwood.[2] About five later, G. P. Baker returned to Constantinople in 1871 and went into the family business.[4] In 1874 G. P. Baker left Constantinople to work in England for the family business. In 1884, when he was 28 years old, he married Mary Emily "Minnie" Davis.[4] With capital from their father,[2] he and his brother James founded in 1884 the firm G P & J Baker and purchased in 1893 the long-established printing firm of Swaisland located in Crayford, Kent.[5][6] G. P. Baker was an important collector of early Oriental fabrics and a leading expert on calico painting and printing in the East Indies.[7][8][9]
As a mountaineer, G. P. Baker is most famous as one of a party of four who in August 1882 opened a new route on the east ridge of Dent Blanche.[2]
In 1929 G. P. Baker and Marco Bonakis were pioneers in the use of seaplanes to transport plants.[10] In 1933 G. P. Baker was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society.[11]
G. P. and Minnie Baker had five sons and two daughters. Three of the sons died in WW I.[4]
(Araliaceae) Bakeria Seem.[12] is named in honour of the botanist J. G. Baker of Thirsk. The plant genus Bakeria now contains no taxonomically accepted names.[13] Шаблон:Botanist
References
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- 1951 deaths
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