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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Thomas Baker's music collection is part of the special collections of the Music Library at Western University, Ontario. Thomas Baker (1719/20–94) lived mainly in Farnham, southwest of London, England, in the County of Surrey. His music collection remained largely intact, which is unusual for the library of an eighteenth-century man who lived in a small town in rural England. The collection at Western consists of 90 separate pieces of music, collections of music, and books of music theory, plus six manuscripts; an inventory of the collection illustrates the variety of musical forms that he collected. His purchase of an organ leads us to conclude that he played the organ and possibly other keyboard instruments; about 25% of his collection is for keyboard. However, he was also interested in a variety of other musical forms, either as a performer or as a collector. From the surviving information, we can create a basic portrait of Baker and his music collection, even if we can draw no definite conclusions about how it was used or if he was merely a collector, or also a performer or an organizer of concerts.
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3 David Hunter, ‘Music’, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 5, 1695–1830 (Cambridge, 2009), 754.
4 St Andrew's Church, Farnham, Parish Register. 22 March 1719: Thomas, son of Thomas.
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6 Will of Thomas Baker of Farnham. Downloaded from http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=568768&queryType=1&resultcount=2
7 Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886: their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees: being the Matriculation Register of the University, alphabetically arranged, revised and annotated by Joseph Foster (Oxford, [1888]). Cambridge University records were checked using the following site: http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/intro.html.
8 The records were checked by Suzanne Forster, Archivist, Winchester College.
9 Temple, Farnham Buildings, 65.
10 Accounts of Thomas Baker of Farnham. Hampshire Record Office [henceforth HRO], Jervoise family of Herriard, series 44M69/E18/2.
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12 Jean Parratt, Farnham Past (Chichester, 1999), 48.
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14 Hunter, Cambridge History of the Book, 5: 753.
15 Accounts of Thomas Baker of Farnham, HRO, series 44M69/E18/2/2.
16 Accounts of Thomas Baker of Farnham, HRO, 44M69/E18/2/14.
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21 Will of Thomas Baker of Farnham, 1. Downloaded from http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=336084&queryType=1&resultcount=2
22 Will of Thomas Baker of Farnham, 1.
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25 Preston Candover Church Burial Records: Thomas Baker Esq. of Farnham, d. Jan 13th 1794, 74 years.
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27 Preston Candover Church Burial Records: Frances Baker, wife of Thomas, d. Dec 31st 1798, 84 years.
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36 Preston Candover Church Burial Records. Thomas Baker Esq. of Farnham, d. Jan 13th 1794, 74 years.
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