Edward Charles Stuart Baker

Fu Companion dell'Ordine dell'Impero Indiano (CIE) e Ufficiale dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (OBE). Fu membro della Zoological Society of London (FZS) e membro della Linnean Society of London (FLS).

Biografia Baker studiò al Trinity College di Stratford-upon-Avon e, nel 1883, seguì suo padre nell'Indian Police Service. Trascorse la maggior parte della sua carriera in India nella Polizia di Assam, arrivando al grado di ispettore generale comandante l'unità. Nel 1910 fu assegnato alla sezione di Special Criminal Investigation. Nel 1911 fece ritorno in Inghilterra, ove assunse l'incarico di Ufficiale Capo della Polizia portuale di Londra, incarico che ricoprì fino al pensionamento avvenuto nel 1925. Per il servizio svolto in questo ruolo durante la prima guerra mondiale, negli onori di guerra ai civili resi nel 1920, fu nominato Ufficiale dell'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (OBE)Wartime Civilian Honours List, The Times, 31 March 1920. Dopo il pensionamento divenne Sindaco di Croydon.

Fu un eccellente giocatore di tennis e un entusiasta cacciatore di grandi trofei. Perse il suo braccio sinistro a causa di una pantera (a Silchar, nell'Assam), fu disarcionato da un gaur e calpestato da un rinoceronte indiano nel corso di diverse spedizioni di caccia.

Ornitologia

Durante il suo tempo libero, studiava e collezionava gli Uccelli dell'India. Fra i suoi libri vi sono The Indian Ducks and their Allies (1908), Game Birds of India and Ceylon (1921), The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. (1922; sette volumi), Mishmi Man-eater (1928), The Nidification of the Birds of the Indian Empire (1932) e Cuckoo Problems (1942; il Cuculus canorus (cuculo) costituiva il suo principale interesse nell'ambito dell'ornitologia).

Nel tempo, egli compose una raccolta completa di quasi 50 000 uova di uccelli indiani, parte della quale fu da lui donata al Natural History Museum, dove trascorse molto tempo a lavorare sulle collezioni di uova provenienti da India e Thailandia. Il suo contributo in sette volumi all'opera The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma divenne l'opera di riferimento in questo campo . Parte della collezione, circa 152 campioni, fu venduta al museo privato dello Zar Ferdinando I di Bulgaria. Baker fu membro anche di comitati consultivi del governo riguardo alla protezione degli uccelli. Dal 1913 al 1936 fu segretario onorario e tesoriere della British Ornithologists' Union.

Alcuni fra i nidi e le uova della sua collezione sono state ritenute di dubbia provenienza e parrebbe che essi sarebbero delle realizzazioni artificiali di Baker. Alcuni, come Charles Vaurie, hanno considerato ciò talmente improbabile che hanno pure suggerito la distruzione della sua collezione di uova.

In onore di Baker fu così chiamata la Yuhina bakeri (Baker's Yuhina).

Opere Baker, E. C. S. (1930): The game birds of the Indian Empire, Vol V: The Waders and other semi-sporting birds, Part XII. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34(3), 613-622. Baker, E. C. S. (1930): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Part 13. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34(3), 859-876. Baker, E. C. S. (1933): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol. V. The waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part XIX. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36(2), 293-306. Baker, E. C. S. (1931): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol. V. The Waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part XIV. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35(1), 1-12. Baker, E. C. S. (1920): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part 29. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(1), 1-24. Baker, E. C. S. (1920): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part 30. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(2), 193-210. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part 31. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(3), 417-430. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part 30. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(4), 651-664. Baker, E. C. S. (1930): The game birds of the Indian Empire, Vol V. The Waders and other semi-sporting birds, Part XI. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34(1), 1-11. Baker, E. C. S. (1931): The game birds of the Indian Empire, Vol, V. The Waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part XIII. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 34(4), 859-876. Baker, E. C. S. (1932): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol. V. The Waders and other semi-sporting birds.Part XVI. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35(3), 475-483. Baker, E. C. S. (1934): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol V. The waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part XX. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(1), 1-14. Baker, E. C. S. (1934): The game birds of the Indian Empire, part 21. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(2), 245-254. Baker, E. C. S. (1942): Information wanted regarding cuckoos. Jour. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc. 17(2), 53-56. Baker, E. C. S. (1943): Information wanted regarding cuckoos. Jour. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc. 17(3), 92-95. Baker, E. C. S. (1914): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part XIII. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(1), 1-22. Baker, E. C. S. (1914): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part XIV. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(2), 183-196. Baker, E. C. S. (1915): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part XV. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(3), 385-412. Baker, E. C. S. (1915): A review of the Indian Swans. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(3), 454-459. Baker, E. C. S. (1915): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part XVI. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(4), 593-606. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 30. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(1), 1-22. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 31. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(2), 305-312. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 32. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(3), 571-575. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part 33. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(4), 823-829. Baker, E. C. S. (1924): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 38. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 30(1), 1-11. Baker, E. C. S. (1925): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 39. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 30(2), 236-241. Baker, E. C. S. (1928): The game birds of the Indian Empire, part 7. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(1), 1-6. Baker, E. C. S. (1929): The game birds of the Indian empire. Part 8. the crab plover. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(2), 223-228. Baker, E. C. S. (1929): The game birds of the Indian empire. Part 10. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(4), 745-752. Baker, E. C. S. (1931): The game birds of the Indian Empire, part 15. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35(2), 241-253. Baker, E. C. S. (1932): The game birds of the Indian Empire, part 17. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35(4), 703-721. Baker, E. C. S. (1935): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5 part 22. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 38(1), 1-5. Baker, E. C. S. (1920): Birds of the Indian Empire: Hand-list of the "Birds of India". Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(2), 228-247. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): The birds of the Indian Empire: Hand-list of the "Birds of India." Part 2. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(3), 448-491. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): The birds of the Indian Empire: Hand-list of the "Birds of India", Part 3. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27(4), 692-744. Baker, E. C. S. (1921): Birds of the Indian empire, part 4. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(1), 085-106. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): Birds of the Indian empire. Part 5. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(2), 313-333. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): Birds of the Indian empire, part 6. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(3), 576-594. Baker, E. C. S. (1922): Birds of the Indian empire, part 7. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28(4), 0830-0873. Baker, E. C. S. (1924): A brief reply to some criticisms on the second edition of the 'avi The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 30(1), 207-209. Baker, E. C. S. (1932): Notes on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds'. vols. 4, 5 and 6 (new edition). Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35(4), 873. Baker, E. C. S. (1932): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Part 18. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 36(1), 1-12. Baker, E. C. S. (1919): Notes on two collections of birds from Seistan. Rec. Indian Mus. 18, 121-134. Baker, E. C. S. (1927): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 3. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 32(1), 1-13. Baker, E. C. S. (1927): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 4. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 32(2), 237-245. Baker, E. C. S. (1928): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol. 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 5. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 32(3), 397-407. Baker, E. C. S. (1928): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 6. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 32(4), 617-621. Baker, E. C. S. (1926): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 1. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 31(2), 233-238. Baker, E. C. S. (1926): The game birds of the Indian Empire. Vol 5. the waders and other semi-sporting birds. Part 2. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 31(3), 533-546. Baker, E. C. S. (1923): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 34. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29(1), 1-8. Baker, E. C. S. (1923): Hand-list of the "birds of India." part 8. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29(1), 09-22. Baker, E. C. S. (1923): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 35. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29(2), 309-317. Baker, E. C. S. (1923): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 36. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29(3), 577-597. Baker, E. C. S. (1924): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 37. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29(4), 849-863. Baker, E. C. S. (1934): The long-tailed duck. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(3), 549-552. Baker, E. C. S. (1915): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 17. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(1), 1-28. Baker, E. C. S. (1916): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 18. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(2), 201-223. Baker, E. C. S. (1916): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 19. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(3), 387-403. Baker, E. C. S. (1916): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 20. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(4), 623-638. Baker, E. C. S. (1918): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 25. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26(1), 1-18. Baker, E. C. S. (1919): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 26. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26(2), 319-337. Baker, E. C. S. (1919): Sub-species and the field naturalist. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26(2), 518-524. Baker, E. C. S. (1919): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon, part 27. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26(3), 705-715. Baker, E. C. S. (1920): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 28. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26(4), 885-906. Baker, E. C. S. (1917): The game birs of India, Burma and ceylon, part 21. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 25(1), 1-39. Baker, E. C. S. (1917): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 22. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 25(2), 161-198. Baker, E. C. S. (1918): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 23. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 25(3), 325-360. Baker, E. C. S. (1918): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 24. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 25(4), 521-546. Baker, E. C. S. (1913): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 9. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 22(1), 1-12. Baker, E. C. S. (1913): The game birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part 10. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 22(2), 219-229.