Biography

Harold Napier Baker, (c. 1877 – 4 July 1950), was born in India, where his father was a CMS missionary. Educated in New Zealand, he came to Australia and was ordained in 1902. He served as curate of St Mary’s Anglican Church, Balmain, followed by temporary placements at Holy Trinity and St Peter’s, Sydney. He was rector of St Peter’s, East Sydney, from 1904 to 1913; he graduated MA at Sydney University in 1912.

He was rector of St John’s, and Rural Dean of Launceston, Tasmania, from 1913 to 1919. In 1919 he was appointed as rector of St Thomas’ Anglican Church, North Sydney, where he remained until his retirement in 1945, when he was appointed Rural Dean of North Sydney.

Baker was interested in amateur theatre, and wrote several plays on Biblical subjects, presented at St Thomas’ Memorial Hall: The King of Love in March 1938, and revived a year later, Thy Kingdom Come in March 1940 and Miriam in August 1950. Players were members of the congregation of St Thomas’ and, in at least one production, pupils of Wenona School, and the Church of England Grammar School for Girls, North Sydney.
He has been credited with founding the Christian Social Order Movement and was recognised as one of the leading scholars of the Australian Church of England.
He died at St Ives Hospital, North Sydney, aged 73, after a short illness. His remains were cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium after a service at St Thomas’ Church.

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