David Bristow Baker
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David Bristow Baker (1803,
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– 24 July 1852) was an English religious writer. Baker was born in 1803, the second son of David Bristow Baker, a Blackfriars merchant. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1829, and M.A. in 1832. Though admitted to the
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in 1824, he was never
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. From 1841 until his death in 1852 he was
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of
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, Surrey. He was the author of ''A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt, in religious questions: with a particular reference to Christianity'' (1831) and ''Discourses and sacramental Addresses to a Village Congregation'' (1832).


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1803 births 1852 deaths English religious writers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century English non-fiction writers {{England-writer-stub