William Baker (cricketer, born 1832)


William Baker was an English cricketer who played one match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1858. He was born at Cobham, Kent.
The son of James and Sarah Baker, he played cricket for Cobham and made a single first-class cricket appearance in 1858 against an England side at Lord's. He scored three runs in the first innings in which he batted and a duck in the second innings. Baker worked as a bricklayer's labourer and later became an engine fitter, moving to Stratford in Essex. His younger brother, George was employed for a time at the same works and also played for Kent. Baker was married and was still living at Stratford in retirement at the 1901 census but it is not known when he died.