Death of 'The Last Survivor' of Webb's Swim, Charles Baker

Death of ‘The Last Survivior’ Cutting, Westminster Gazette, 17 September 1924. Image shows a newspaper cutting reporting the death of swimmer Charles W. Baker.

At the age of 17, then known as ‘Boy Baker’ he accompanied Captain Matthew Webb during his famous Channel swim (24-25 August 1875), often swimming alongside Captain Webb.

He came to be known as ‘The Last Survivor’ of the fourteen who witnessed the swim.