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==Early life and athletic career==
 
wankaaaaaaaaaaaaaBorn Philip Baker, he was born to a [[Canada|Canadian]]-born [[Quaker]] father, [[Joseph Allen Baker]], who moved to [[England]] to set up a manufacturing business and himself served on the [[London County Council]] and in the [[United Kingdom House of Commons|House of Commons]]. Educated at [[Bootham School]], [[York]] and then in the [[United States|US]] at the Quaker-associated [[Haverford College]], he attended [[King's College, Cambridge]] from [[1910]] to [[1912]]. As well as being an excellent student, he became President of the [[Cambridge Union Society]] and the [[Cambridge University Athletic Club]].
 
He was selected and ran for [[United Kingdom|Britain]] at the [[1912 Olympic Games|Stockholm Olympic Games]] in 1912, and was team manager as well as a competitor for the British track team for the [[1920 Summer Olympics|1920]] and [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924 Olympics]]. In [[1920]] at [[Antwerp]] he won a silver medal in the [[1500 metres]]. The exploits of the British team at the 1924 Games in [[Paris]] were later made famous in the [[1982]] film ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', though Noel-Baker's part in such was not portrayed in that film.