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Alexander Baker (1611 – 4 August 1685) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Baker was the son of Alexander Baker, barber-surgeon of Channel Row, Westminster and his first wife Alice Jervoise, daughter of Edward Jervoise of Hampshire. He was baptised 25 July 1611. He was a student of Clifford's Inn in 1634 and became an attorney. He did not participate in the Civil War, although Oliver Cromwell used his house as quarters shortly before the trial of Charles I.