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Lt. Colonel Harold Robert Baker (5 February 1869 – 3 August 1949) was a British Indian ornithologist and an Indian Staff Corps officer. Along with Charles M. Inglis he wrote a book on the birds of southern India.

Baker was born in Hoshnagabad to Major General Robert John Baker (1829-1922) and Louisa Edith nee Ranking. He married Bessie Emily Beaumont (1869-) from Allahabad at Kannur on 1 March 1893.

Three children were born including Harold de Colville Beaumont Baker (b 1897), Robert Lancaster (1900-1921) and Hugh Cecil Aufrere (b 1906).

He died at Durban of bronchopneumonia.