Alfred Baker (c. 1848 – October 27, 1942) was a Canadian academic at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was its president from 1915 to 1916.
Biography Born in Toronto, of Yorkshire parents, Baker was educated at the Toronto Grammar School and the University of Toronto. He was appointed a mathematical tutor in University College in 1875 and was a registrar in 1880. Baker was a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto and was the first chair of the Department of Mathematics from 1887 until 1919.
He served as the third dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1912 to 1919.
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