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Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834. [3] He was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould (1804–1872), lord of the manor of Lew Trenchard, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, formerly a lieutenant in the Madras Light Cavalry (resigned 1830), by his first wife, Sophia Charlotte Bond, daughter of Admiral Francis Godolphin ...
She founded a small press, Praxis Books, in 1992, which has concentrated almost exclusively on reissuing the works of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924). She has also written and published a definitive biography of Baring-Gould. Tope's hobbies mainly centre around wool, antique auctions and travel.
He was the son of William Drake Baring-Gould (1878–1921), a grandson of Sabine Baring-Gould and a descendant of John Baring. He married Lucile "Ceil" Marguerite Moody (1914–2010) in 1936. They had a son William (d. 1966) and a daughter Judy. [1]
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective is a 1962 novel by William S. Baring-Gould. The book purports to be a biography of Sherlock Holmes. [1] It is considered to be the "definitive" biography of Sherlock Holmes. [2]
The Baring family is one of the most titled in the United Kingdom, since several family members were created peers or baronets. The family has held the following British peerage titles: Baron Ashburton (created 1835) Baron Northbrook (created 1866) Earl of Northbrook and Viscount Baring (created 1876; extinct 1929) Baron Revelstoke (created 1885)
Militon married and had a son and heir, [3] William (died 1 June 1571), who became Sheriff of Cornwall in 1565, and married Honor Godolphin, a daughter of Sir William Godolphin of Godolphin, Cornwall. Of William and his wife, Sabine Baring-Gould relates as follows: [8]
Synopsis. Hender Gaverock is an eccentric old Cornish squire, who has two sons, Garens and Constantine, whose natural spirits have been almost wholly crushed by his harsh and brutal rule. Garens philosophically submits, but Constantine rebels; and the book is chiefly occupied with the misdeeds, and their consequences, of the younger son, whose ...
Many of the more fantastic stories told about Hawker are based on an unreliable biography published by the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in 1876, only a few months after Hawker's death. Other eccentricities attributed to him include dressing up as a mermaid and excommunicating his cat for mousing on Sundays.