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Descendants of WILLIAM BAKER

262. Joseph Samuel⁷ BAKER (Joseph Allan⁶, Joseph⁵, SAMUEL I⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born February 01, 1881, and died 1947. He married Sibyl ARMITAGE. She was born 1884, and died 1969.

Child of Joseph BAKER and Sibyl ARMITAGE is:

538

Roberta Sibyl Janette⁸ BAKER, born Private.

263. Mary Balmer⁷ BAKER (Joseph Allan⁶, Joseph⁵, SAMUEL I⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born August 31, 1882 in London, ENGLAND, and died February 26, 1951 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND. She married Frank Garfield PENMAN August 30, 1922 in Jordans FMH, Buckinghamshire, ENGLAND, son of Ebenezer PENMAN and Helen JOHNSTONE. He was born January 07, 1884, and died December 03, 1963 in SOUTH AFRICA.

More About Mary Balmer BAKER:
Education: Bet. 1894 - 1898, Sidcot School
Military service: Bet. 1915 - 1918, Nursed in France, Cambridge and Corsica

Child of Mary BAKER and Frank PENMAN is:

539

Clare Frances Grace⁸ PENMAN, born Private.

264. Martha Janette⁷ BAKER (Joseph Allan⁶, Joseph⁵, SAMUEL I⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born April 22, 1884 in Islington, London, ENGLAND, and died April 30, 1972 in London, Middlesex, ENGLAND. She married John Bevan BRAITHWAITE July 30, 1908 in Willesden FMH, London, ENGLAND. He was born November 22, 1884 in Islington, London, ENGLAND, and died April 05, 1973.

Notes for Martha Janette BAKER:
aka Netty Baker

Notes for John Bevan BRAITHWAITE:
aka: Jack

Children of Martha BAKER and John BRAITHWAITE are:

540

Margaret Norah⁸ BRAITHWAITE, born November 20, 1909 in Hendon, London, ENGLAND; died January 19, 1981 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, ENGLAND.

Notes for Margaret Norah BRAITHWAITE:
aka: Molly

Obituary SOSA Report 1981:
Molly Braithwaite came to Sidcot from 1923-1926 and then, following family tradition, went on to The Mount. My brother, Ian Black, and I had met her several years earlier, in July 1917, at the first birthday of her cousin Elizabeth Penman (Sidcot 1929-33) in New Barnet. The Black family was in the process of migrating from Edinburgh to the West Country, and en route had rented a house belonging to Elizabeth's grandmother; the "young" Penmans, Frank and Grace (nee Baker, Sidcot 1895-97) were living nearby, and the Braithwaites had come over for the party. We little dreamed that in a few years time we should all meet again at Sidcot.

Molly's own article for the 1979 O.S. Report, entitled "After 50 years", sketched so vividly the Sidcot days of our time and her reactions to it. Perhaps I can briefly add a few more recollections of joint activities: Select Choir practices for the Sunday Evening Anthem; hours of rehearsals under Maurice Littleboy's direction for the production of "St. Joan" to celebrate the opening of the New Hall and Meeting House in 1926; hilarious excursions by coach to play "away matches" of hockey and tennis. Many more pictures come back, but space forbids. From The Mount School, Molly went to Newnham College, Cambridge and graduated in English and History. During her final year she made her first contact with the Rhythmic Gymnastic Movement, and being both athletic and musical, she decided to go to Germany to train under Dr. Medau in Berlin. On her return she gained teaching experience with classes for housewives in Dagenham, but soon felt the need to widen her horizons. So she travelled to the Far East, teaching in Japan, until shortly before the War she returned home. Finally, with the encouragement, among others, of her uncle Philip Noel Baker [see below], and the enthusiastic help of her parents, Jack and Nettie (née Baker, Sidcot 1894-95), the "Medau Society of Great Britain" was formally inaugurated in 1952, with Molly as President and the Braithwaite home at Ferniehurst, Hampstead Way, the first Medau Centre in this country. During the next few years, the work of the Society became officially recognised by the Ministry of Education and the Council of Physical Education, and in 1967 Molly acquired for the
Society a large Victorian house in Balham where there were rooms for classes and recreation. Molly, now increasingly handicapped by arthritis, lived in a charming flat at the top of the house. The Medau Movement was initially recreational, but by now there were classes for the Elderly, for the Disabled, for psychiatric patients and others. It was very much Molly's energy and total dedication that attracted teachers and members to form groups all over Britain. She published an account of the development of the Movement in 1955 and brought it up to date in 1976.

The crowning glory of her professional career came with the Festival of Movement in the Royal Albert Hall in April 1978 when hundreds of people took part, as teams, in a wonderful display of rhythmic movement and colour. Molly, in front of the "mike" introduced them all with her usual clarity and grace. It was fitting that a few months later she was honoured with the M.B.E. To those of us who knew her well at Sidcot it was a great joy that she was able to return for our Class Reunion at Easter 1979 and to know how much she was looking forward to being at Sidcot more often. But this was not to be, Molly died in her brother Franklin's (Sidcot 1929-32) home on January 19th, 1981. Many members of her family and friends, including Old Scholars, attended the simple service of thanks-giving for her life, friendship and devoted service for others.
M.D.B.

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More About Margaret Norah BRAITHWAITE:
Education: Bet. 1923 - 1926, Sidcot School
Religion: Quaker

541

ii.

John David Christopher BRAITHWAITE, born June 23, 1911 in Hendon, London, ENGLAND; died July 02, 1978. He married Olive Elizabeth BAKER Private; born Private.

Notes for John David Christopher BRAITHWAITE:
aka: David

542

iii.

Joseph Franklin Madders BRAITHWAITE, born Private.

266. Elizabeth Grace⁷ BAKER (Joseph Allan⁶, Joseph⁵, SAMUEL I⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born January 14, 1887 in London, ENGLAND, and died June 25, 1920. She married Frank Garfield PENMAN July 31, 1914 in Harlesden, London, ENGLAND, son of Ebenezer PENMAN and Helen JOHNSTONE. He was born January 07, 1884, and died December 03, 1963 in SOUTH AFRICA.

More About Elizabeth Grace BAKER:
Education: Bet. 1897 - 1902, Sidcot School

Children of Elizabeth BAKER and Frank PENMAN are:

+	543	i.	Elizabeth⁸ PENMAN, born Private.
	544	ii.	Joseph Allen Baker PENMAN, born December 07, 1918; died March 10, 1919.
+	545	iii.	Josephine Helen PENMAN, born Private.

267. Philip John⁷ BAKER (Joseph Allan⁶, Joseph⁵, SAMUEL I⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², WILLIAM¹) was born November 01, 1889 in London, Middlesex, England, and died October 02, 1982 in London, Middlesex, England. He married Irene NOEL 1915, daughter of Frank NOEL. She was born 1879, and died February 08, 1956.

Notes for Philip John BAKER:
The son of Canadian-born Quakers, Baker added his wife's surname, Noel, to his own about 1926. His mistress was for many years Lady Megan Lloyd-George, the daughter of Lloyd George. He studied at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, at King's College, Cambridge, and at the Universities of Munich and Paris.

A noted athlete, he ran in the 1912 and 1920 Olympic Games, and as captain of the British team at the 1920 Games in Antwerp he won the silver medal in the 1,500 metres. He also competed in the 1924 Olympics at Paris, (captain of British track team which inspired the film "Chariots of Fire") and the 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam.
As a Quaker, Noel-Baker could not enlist in World War I but served with bravery in an ambulance unit and received several medals. From 1924 to 1929 he was professor for International Relations at London University. British statesman and advocate of international disarmament, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1959. Fluent in seven languages, he campaigned widely for 40 years for peace through multilateral disarmament. A member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Baker (as he then was) subsequently joined the League of Nations secretariat. He assisted Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer and humanitarian who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1922. At the League of Nations assembly in 1923-24, Baker served as personal assistant to Lord Robert Cecil (later Viscount Cecil of Chelwood), promoter of the League and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1937. He also was principal assistant to Arthur Henderson, president of the disarmament conference at Geneva, in 1932-33.

Noel-Baker sat in the House of Commons as a Labour member from 1929 to 1931 for Coventry and from 1936 to 1970 for Derby South. Between 1945 and 1961, he was successively minister of state, secretary of state for air and for Commonwealth relations, and minister of fuel and power. He helped to draft the UN charter and was a member of the British delegation to the General Assembly in 1946-47.

From 1960 to 1982 he was president of the International Council on Sport and Physical Recreation of UNESCO. His survey of the disarmament problem was published as The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament (1958). Other works include Disarmament and The League of Nations at Work, both published in 1926, and The Arms Race (1960), for which Noel-Baker was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize in 1960. He was award the Nobel Prize for campaign for disarmament in 1959. A retrospective study, The First World Disarmament Conference, 1932-33, and Why It Failed, was published in 1979. Noel-Baker was made a life peer in 1977 as Lord Noel-Baker and spent his retirement working for the cause of world disarmament. In 1981, at the age of 91, he wrote and recorded a popular song on the subject. Slide picture with Patrick & Thomas O'B Baker at Friends House, London 1979.

The Right Honorable Philip John Noel-Baker (November 1, 1889-1982) is a man of strong and steadfast convictions. To a reporter who interviewed him after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that he had been awarded the Peace Prize, he said, «War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization - that is the essence of my belief.»1

Noel-Baker, who formally joined his wife's surname with his own in 1943, was reared in an atmosphere of affluence, religious observance, and political activism. He was one of seven children of a Canadian-born Quaker, Joseph Allen Baker, who moved to England to establish what became a profitable machine manufacturing firm. The elder Baker was a pactfist and humanitarian who held a seat on the London County Council from 1895 to 1907 and in the House of Commons from 1905 to 1918.

Noel-Baker excelled in school. After attending Bootham School in York and Haverford College in Pennsylvania - both of them Quaker-affiliated institutions - he took honors in the history tripos in 1910 and in the economics tripos in 1912 at King's College, Cambridge, and in both 1911 and 1913 was named the Whewell scholar in international law. Before the First World War he also studied for a brief time in Paris and Munich. At Cambridge in 1912, Noel-Baker was president of the debating society and from 1910 to 1912 president of the Cambridge University Athletic Club. A stellar performer in the middle distances, he ran in the Olympic Games held in Stockholm in 1912 and captained the British track team at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp and at the 1924 Games in Paris.

From 1914 until the present day, Noel-Baker has three times accepted academic posts but has left them to pursue a career in public service. Having completed his M.A., he accepted the post of vice-principal of Ruskin College at Oxford in 1914, but with the onset of the war, he organized and became the commandant of the Friends' Ambulance Unit attached to the fighting front in France (1914-1915) and subsequently became adjutant of the First British Ambulance Unit for Italy (1915-1918). In France he won the Mons Star (1915); in Italy, the Silver Medal for Military Valor (1917) and the Croce di Guerra (1918 ). In 1915 he met and married a field hospital nurse, Irene Noel, the daughter of a British landowner in Achmetaga, Greece.

Noel-Baker participated in the formation, the administration, and the legislative deliberations of the two great international political organizations of the twentieth century - the League of Nations and the United Nations. In 1918-1919, during the Peace Conference in Paris, he was principal assistant to Lord Robert Cecil on the committee which drafted the League of Nations Covenant; from 1920 to 1922 a member of the Secretariat of the League, being principal assistant to Sir Eric Drummond, first secretary-general of the League; from 1922 to 1924 the private secretary to the British representative on the League's Council and Assembly. Meanwhile, he also was acting as a valued adviser to Fridtjof Nansen in his prisoner-of-war and refugee work. From 1929 to 1931 he was a member of the British delegation to the Assembly of the League and then for a year an assistant to Arthur Henderson, the chairman of the Disarmament Conference.

For a brief period notable for its scholarly productivity, he returned to academic pursuits. He accepted the invitation issued by the University of London to become the first Sir Ernest Cassell Professor of International Law, occupying this chair from 1924 to 1929. Out of his League experience and further research, he wrote and published The Geneva Protocol f or the Pacifc Settlement of International Disputes (1925), The League of Nations at Work (1926), Disarmament (1926), Disarmament and the Coolidge Conference (1927). From his research for a course of lectures in the summer of 1927 at the Academy of International Law at The Hagué came Le Statut juridique actuel des dominions britanniques dans le domaine du droit international (1928). Except for a year spent as Dodge Lecturer in 1933-1934 at Yale University, Noel-Baker henceforth devoted his life to politics and international affairs.

For four decades Noel-Baker was prominent in the Labor Party. He was unsuccessful in a 1924 contest for a seat in the House of Commons, but from 1929 to 1931 he sat as a member from Coventry, from 1936 to 1950 as a member from Derby, and from 1950 to 1970 from Derby South. He was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labor Party in 1937 and in 1946 succeeded Harold Laski as chairman of the party.

From 1936 to 1942, Noel-Baker was in the Opposition in the Commons, but accepted the office of Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of War Transport proffered by Winston Churchill in 1942. In the Attlee government elected in 1945, he was, successively, Minister of State in the Foreign Office (1945-1946), Secretary of State for Air (1946-1947), Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (1947-1950), and Minister of Fuel and Power (1950-1951). When the Labor Party lost power, Noel-Baker became a member of the «shadow cabinet », was named vice-chairman of the foreign affairs group of the Parliamentary Labor Party in 1961 and its chairman in 1964.

At the close of World War II, the functions which Noel-Baker discharged in connection with the United Nations were analogous to those he performed for the League of Nations a generation earlier. Having been in charge of British preparatory work for the United Nations beginning in 1944, he helped to draft the Charter of the UN at San Francisco the next year and in 1946 was appointed to membership on the British delegation.

In the formative days of the UN, Noel-Baker was concerned with the selection of a site for UN headquarters (he favored Geneva) and with outlining privileges, restrictions, and responsibilities of members of the UN staff - the ground rules, in a sense, of a world civil service. A delegate to the Food and Agriculture Organization at Quebec in 1945, he helped give viability to that imperilled organization by delineating a compromise between pure research programs on the one hand and relief operations on the other. As the United Kingdom delegate to the Economic and Social Council, he called for an action program to abolish poverty in an affluent world. In the General Assembly, he supported regulation of arms traffic, plans for atomic controls, economic aid for refugees and re-institution of the «Nansen passport», the economic unification of the Allied zones in Germany, and wide-ranging plans for economic development and organization in Europe.

In the decade of the fifties, Noel-Baker returned to his studies on disarmament. He had published a long book in 1936, The Private Manufacture of Armaments. In The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament, published in 1958, he summarizes the results of extensive research combined with «personal experiences which began at the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919». This comprehensive, historical, and analytical study won the Albert Schweitzer Book Prize in 1961.

Although his days of active participation in track have long since passed, Noel-Baker retains the lean look of the athlete and an absorption in athletics. He was commandant of the 1952 British Olympic team and in 1960 became president of the International Council of Sport and Physical Recreation of UNESCO.

Noel-Baker has continued to reside in London since the death of his wife in 1956. For about twenty years he had the pleasure of serving in the House of Commons as a colleague of his only child, Francis Noel-Baker.

Noel-Baker died in 1982.

From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970
1. New York Times (November 6, 1959), p.4
Selected Bibliography
Baker, Elizabeth B., and Philip John Noel-Baker, J. Allen Baker, Member of Parliament: A Memoir. London, Swarthmore, 1927. ,

Current Biography, 7 (1946).

The New York Times (November 6, 1959). Announcement of Prize, pp. 1 and 4. «An Athletic Pacifist», p.4.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament. London, Stevens, 1958.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, Disarmament. London, Hogarth, 1926.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, Disarmament and the Coolidge Conference. London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1927.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. London, King, 1925.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, Hawkers of Death: The Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms, London, Labour Party, 1934.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The League of Nations at Work. London, Nisbet, 1926.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, «A National Air Force No Defence» and «The International Air Police Force», in Challenge to Death, ed. by Storm Jameson. London, Constable, 1934.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, «The Obligatory Jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice», in The British Year Book of International Law (1925), pp. 68-102

Noel-Baker, Philip John, «Peace and the Official Mind», in Challenge to Death, ed. by Storm Jameson. London, Constable, 1934.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The Present Juridical Status of the British Dominions in International Law. London, Longmans, Green, 1929. English version of «Le Statut juridique actuel des dominions britanniques dans le domaine du droit international», in Académie de droit international: Recueil des cours, Tome 4 en 1927, pp.247-491. Tome 19 de la Collection. Paris, Hachette, 1928.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The Private Manufacture of Armaments. London, Gollancz 1936.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, «UN, the Atom, the Veto.» Speech at the Plenary Assembly of the United Nations: 25 October, 1946. London, Labour Party, 1946.

Noel-Baker, Philip John, The Way to World Disarmament-Now! London, Union of Democratic Control, 1963.

Russell, Bertrand, «Philip Noel-Baker: A Tribute», in International Relations, 2 (1960) 1-2.
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More About Philip John BAKER:
Religion: Quaker

Notes for Irene NOEL:
Greek. Irene met Philip Baker, whilst nursing during the First World War in Italy, and when they married, they joined their two names to Noel-Baker. Joseph Allan Frederick Noel-Baker (1962) has a 45rpm vinyl recording (2 disks) of the memorial service: 17th Feb 1956, St. Paul's Cathedral, Athens, Greece.

More About Irene NOEL:
Nationality: Greek

Child of Philip BAKER and Irene NOEL is:

546

Francis Edward⁸ NOEL-BAKER, born Private.

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