death_place death_date title nationality birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
hobart , tasmania , australia 1836 1761 september sergeant english c. 1761 susannah lavender -lrb- m. 1795 - 1824 -rrb- huffnell -lrb- m. 1788 - 1790 -rrb- elizabeth william baker -lrb- colonist -rrb-
 william baker new publican crier , supreme court of van diemen 's land south wales marine superintendant of convicts farmer and
william baker -lrb- colonist -rrb-

william baker -lrb- c. 1761 -- 14 september 1836 -rrb- was a new south wales marine and member of the first fleet that founded the european penal colony of new south wales .
initially an orderly for the colony 's first governor , arthur phillip , baker was later appointed government storekeeper in parramatta , and storekeeper and superintendent of convicts in the rural settlement of hawkesbury .
in 1810 he was dismissed from all government posts after being found to have misused his position for personal gain , and relocated to hobart where he became the inaugural crier for australia 's oldest colony-wide judicature , the supreme court of van diemen 's land .
the australian fish `` latropiscis purpurissatus '' , or `` sergeant baker '' , is named in his honour .
