VENN: Incorp. as MA 1714 from CHRIST CHURCH Oxford [college at Cambridge not stated]; matric Oxford 6 Apr. 1704 aged 15; son of William of Lichfield, clerk (CCEd ID 39715); BA Oxford 1708; MA 1711; R of Nailstone, Leics. 1735-45; minor canon Westminster (?); Gentleman of Chapel Royal 1715; died 10 May 1745 aged 59; father of Thomas 1734. (Al. Oxon; Nichols IV, 809)
? St Paul's not Westminster
Foster gives the same dates for university career, same father, but allocated him parishes in Beds. and Essex which do not seem to fit. These would appear to fit another Thomas Baker (CCEd ID 5583)