The husband of high-flying City fund manager and mother-of-six 'Superwoman' Nicola Horlick has died with cancer.
Ms Horlick, whose eldest daughter Georgina died from leukaemia at the age of 12 after a 10-year battle, has announced her husband Martin Baker passed away a month after his 64th birthday.
'He died this morning,' she told the Daily Mail's Richard Eden. 'He did really well to live so long.'
Financial journalist Mr Baker was diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer in 2018.
He became Ms Horlick's second husband in 2006. They had met when he interviewed her for the Sunday Telegraph the previous year.
Mr Baker spent two decades in journalism, after initially qualifying as a City solicitor at Simmons & Simmons.
He penned pieces for a number of publications, including the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and the Independent, including profiles on then BBC General Director, Greg Dyke, and future Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne - who at the time wanted to pursue an acting career.
Mr Baker was also one of the first national journalists to hear and write about then little-known football starlet Wayne Rooney before he broke through to the first team of his boyhood club, Everton.
Nicola Horlick and Martin Baker at a function in the City of London. Financial journalist Mr Baker, who died yesterday, was diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer in 2018
When Baker wrote a thriller novel set in the world of high finance, Meltdown, his future wife Ms Horlick acted as technical editor.
Her six children were with her first husband, fellow investment banker Tim Horlick, whom she divorced in 2005 after a 21-year marriage.
Their daughter Georgina battled leukaemia for 10 years until 1998. Her death is said to have been the catalyst that ended Nicola's marriage - her husband had an affair with a receptionist.
She doesn't blame him, however, saying that grief manifests itself in many different ways.
Talking about meeting her second husband, Baker, the authorised biographer of West Ham manager David Moyes, she said: 'Martin came along to interview me for his newspaper and I thought, 'Oh, he is quite nice.'
'We were talking about Georgina and he started crying, because he is very emotional.
'He said he had three children himself, and that he just couldn't contemplate the death of one of them. So I ended up comforting him.'
Ms Horlick first hit the headlines in 1997 when investment bank Morgan Grenfell suspended her, believing she was planning to leave; she flew to Hamburg accompanied by a large group of journalists, demanding to hold on to her job.
Later, she worked for SG Warburg as she brought up her large brood of children. Her daughter Georgina, 12, tragically died from blood cancer in 1998.
She opened a restaurant named after Georgina, in Barnes, south west London, and set up Bramdean Alternatives fund which she ran until she lost control to former friend Vincent Tchenguiz.
Ms Horlick (pictured left) has announced her husband Martin Baker passed away last night. Ms Horlick has six children, all with her first husband, fellow investment banker Tim Horlick, whom she divorced in 2005 after a 21-year marriage. Pictured: One of her daughters, Georgina Horlick, who died from leukaemia at the age of 12 after a 10-year battle
He ousted her from the board after Bramdean lost $20 million of investors' money in a Ponzi scheme set up by fraudster Bernie Madoff in 2008.
She later blamed exhausted stay-at-home mothers who prefer to stay in at night for the failure of her restaurant - after 18 months - because the area was 'full of mothers with children who don't go out much at night'.
She also cited 'outrageous' business rates in the smart suburb for the restaurant's failure and blamed local estate agents for pushing them up.
'I have learnt a lot of lessons,' she said in 2014. 'The problem is Barnes if full of mothers with children who don't go out much at night.
'So although we were doing 200 lunches on a Saturday and breaking even, I need to give a proper return to shareholders.'
Ms Horlick's business prowess, all while bringing up six children earned her the soubriquet as the original 'City Superwoman'.
She once revealed juggling child-rearing with boardroom duties meant she had to breastfeed in the office – even while carrying out job interviews.
She said: ‘I had my last child when I was 38 and I was 25 when I had Georgie and I noticed a major difference between the first and the last in terms of my body.
‘My advice to them [her daughters] is not to leave it too late to get married and to have children in their twenties if possible. It is better for you and better for the baby.
‘When I breastfed it was in the office and I have breastfed when I have been interviewing people for jobs.
‘I used to have a shawl and I would put it over the head of a baby and no one cared. But if you do it with your breast bare in public then it does affect some people and maybe older people.
‘I don’t think there is any point in doing that and babies don’t mind having a shawl over their head.’
Pictured: Nicola Horlick Ex-fund Manager With City Firm Morgan Grenfall With Her Children And Nanny.
Earlier this year, Ms Horlick wrote an emotional piece for the Daily Mail, talking about her life, the death of her daughter, and her famous soubriquet.
She wrote: 'With a law degree from Oxford University, I went on to have six children while running a multi-million pound investment company in the City during the 1990s.
'I acquired the soubriquet Superwoman — not that I ever endorsed it.
'When you’re fortunate enough to have an income of a £1 million a year, you can afford a nanny, cleaners and a housekeeper.
'I think the real superwomen are the working mums who manage without such help.'
Ms Horlick also discussed the death of her daughter in the piece. She wrote: 'Our lives had seemed richly blessed until our beloved daughter’s long illness.
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Share'Georgie, who would be 35 now, was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of two. It took me more than six months to convince doctors that there was something wrong with her.
‘She just has a virus. It’ll be OK,’ they would tell me. But my mother’s instincts told me something was terribly wrong and I continued to make a fuss until eventually one doctor sent Georgie off for a blood test.
'She was admitted to hospital that evening and began chemotherapy the next day in September 1989. Her illness was a long and traumatic one.'
Ms Horlick said that Georgina lived healthily from the ages of three to eight, despite the cancer, but relapsed in 1995.
During one particularly horrible bout of illness, Georgina nearly died of necrotising fasciitis - known as a 'flesh eating' disease - which sees its victims flesh begin to rot.
The leukaemia came back and she endured a bone marrow transplant in May 1998 before dying at Great Ormond Street Hospital on November 27 of the same year.
Describing the impact of her death on her family, she wrote: 'Her death, of course, was a profound trauma to us all.
Ms Horlick (pictured) said that Georgina lived healthily from the ages of three to eight, despite the cancer, but relapsed in 1995
'Georgie’s siblings Alice, now 33, Serena, 31, Rupert, 28 and Antonia, 25 (my sixth child, Benjie, now 22, was born within a year of Georgie’s death) were all affected differently.
'But perhaps it was Antonia — just two-and-a-half when Georgie died — who suffered most grievously because hers was, in a sense, a double loss.
'For the formative early years of Antonia’s life, I was keeping a virtually constant vigil at Georgie’s hospital bedside. So my youngest daughter was denied the attention of her mum, then she lost a sister.'
Ms Horlick is now the chair of Anthony Nolan, the charity which saves the lives of people with blood cancer.
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