Bernard Granville Baker

Bernard Granville Baker (23 October 1870 – 12 March 1957) (known as B. Granville Baker) was a British soldier and painter specialising in military subjects. He wrote and illustrated a number of books.

Life and work

Baker was born in Pune (then called Poona) in India. He was the son of Montagu Bernard Baker, who worked for the British East India Company, and his wife Harriet Fanny Bangh.

He was educated at Winchester College and the Military Academy at Dresden. He served in the 21st (Empress of India's) Hussars in India and Burma. He fought in the Boer Wars in South Africa in 1900. In the First World War, he became a Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the 13th[battalion] of the Yorkshire Regiment.

Baker is known for his illustrations and watercolour paintings of military subjects, such as "Sir John Moore at Corunna, January 16th 1809" in the 1920s. of "an English ex-army Colonel" in Beccles who was Bernard Granville Baker. From a Terrace in Prague has the dedication "This book is dedicated to a wise and gentle lady who looks out upon life from a terrace", died in 1942. The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe (1913) The German Army from within. By a British officer who has served in it (1914) (with Thomas Burke) Hutchinson's History of the Nations (1915, including The Sea! The Sea!) Types of the Allied Armies (1914–1918) (with "Oilette") Soldiers of the World (1914–1918) (with "Oilette") From a Terrace in Prague (1923) Waveney. Illustrated (1924) Blithe Waters: Sheaves out of Suffolk (1931) Old Cavalry Stations (1934)