George Percival Baker

George Percival Baker (1856–1951) was a textile merchant and manufacturer, collector of fabrics from India and Persia, amateur botanist, mountaineer, oarsman, and amateur photographer.

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, After education at a Franciscan monastery school 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. G. P. Baker was an important collector of early Oriental fabrics and a leading expert on calico painting and printing in the East Indies.

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. In 1933 G. P. Baker was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society.

G. P. and Minnie Baker had five sons and two daughters. Three of the sons died in WW I. is named in honour of the botanist J. G. Baker of Thirsk. The plant genus Bakeria now contains no taxonomically accepted names.