Alfred Baker (academic)

Alfred Baker
Alfred Baker
3rd Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts
	In office; 1912–1919
Preceded by	Robert Ramsay Wright
Succeeded by	Arthur Philemon Coleman
Personal details
Born	c. 1848; Toronto, Canada West
Died	October 27, 1942 (aged 93–94)

Alfred Baker (c. 1848 – October 27, 1942) was a Canadian academic at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was its president from 1915 to 1916.^[1]

Biography

Born in Toronto, of Yorkshire parents, Baker was educated at the Toronto Grammar School and the University of Toronto. He was appointed a mathematical tutor in University College in 1875 and was a registrar in 1880.^[2] Baker was a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto and was the first chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1887 until 1919.^[1]^[3]

He served as the third dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1912 to 1919.^[4]

References

1 2 "[Obituaries]". Nature. 150 (3810): 542. 1942. Bibcode:1942Natur.150Q.542.. doi:10.1038/150542b0. ISSN 0028-0836.
↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Beach, Chandler B.; McMurry, Frank Morton, eds. (1914). "Baker, Alfred, M. A." . The New Student's Reference Work. Vol. I. Chicago: F.E. Compton & Company – via Wikisource. [scan ]
↑ "Departmental Timeline". Department of Mathematics. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
↑ Brown, Robert Craig (2013). Arts and Science at Toronto: A History, 1827-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 257.