Baker, George
Baker, George (
b Birkenhead, 1885;
d Hereford, 1976). Eng. baritone, especially but not exclusively associated with the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Also writer and adjudicator. BBC Overseas Music Dir. 1944–7. 2nd wife was sop. Olive Groves (
d 1974). CBE 1971.
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