John Baker

John 'Jack' Baker (1916-2007) was a British stained-glass artist, teacher, conservator and author. Biography He was a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the late 1930s, where he was a contemporary of Monica Walker and the artist, illustrator and children's author Hilary Stebbing, whom he married in 1946. He worked under James Hogan at the Whitefriars Glass before joining Samuel Caldwell junior at Canterbury Cathedral in 1948 to help reinstate the medieval glass removed for safekeeping during the Second World War. Teaching Baker taught stained glass at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1951, where in 1953-54 he ran the stained glass department with Tom Fair, and his pupils included Robert Sowers and Margaret Traherne. From 1963 he taught at Kingston College of Art. His work was exhibited at the The Architectural Association in January 1956.