Keith was born in Albany Road Seaford on the 18th November 1941, the only Son of Eric Godfrey Baker and Dilys Baker nee Enoch. Regretfully, Eric whilst on active service as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in World War 2 was killed in Dieppe in 1944.

In 1951 Dilys, a popular Seaford Teacher married again to Edgar Blythe who became both friend as well as Stepfather to Keith. He was educated at Lewes Grammar School before graduating with a degree in Physics from University College London. Keith then went on to train as a Weather Forecaster at the Meteorological Office spending some time in the Middle East before

leaving the service to become a physics teacher at Hastings Grammar School.

His continuing interest in meteorology resulted in publishing an interesting book “be your own weather expert” in 1995 and after a T V Weatherman gave a simple explanation of an “overnight disappearance of snow” Keith gave a detailed and lucid explanation in the December 1997 edition of “Weather” the Royal Meteorological Society Magazine correcting the earlier assumptions. He had a complete set of forecasting equipment at “Sunny Top” his Barons Close bungalow.

The bungalow was also elaborately wired so you could listen to music in any room, with an eclectic taste ranging from the classics to the Soviet Army, James Last to Abba on whom he had a complete collection of books, records, cds, tapes and DVDs. He was also a self taught pianist.

Before his health broke down he enjoyed playing tennis and was a Member of the Seaford Club.

We are fortunate in that he had a keen financial brain and added investment as another of his hobbies so having paid for his bungalow and a comfortable Mercedes he created the Capital from which we formed the “Keith Baker Trust”. Keith retired from teaching in the 90s and died following a stroke in 2007.

In his lifetime Keith supported a number of Charities and we continue that support in his Memory.