Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar.
25 Facts About Sabine Baring-Gould
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Sabine Baring-Gould's family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is a hotel.
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Sabine Baring-Gould translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.
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Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834.
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Sabine Baring-Gould was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould, 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, by his first wife, Sophia Charlotte Bond, daughter of Admiral Francis Godolphin Bond, Royal Navy.
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Sabine Baring-Gould only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London and then, for a few months, at King's School, Warwick.
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Sabine Baring-Gould's father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour.
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Sabine Baring-Gould taught for only ten days at one of Woodard's boys' boarding schools in Sussex, Lancing College, but then moved to another, Hurstpierpoint College, where he stayed from 1857 to 1864.
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Sabine Baring-Gould took Holy Orders in 1864, and became the curate at Horbury Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Sabine Baring-Gould, meanwhile, relocated to become perpetual curate at Dalton, near Thirsk.
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Sabine Baring-Gould became the rector of East Mersea in Essex in 1871 and spent ten years there.
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Sabine Baring-Gould did a great deal of work restoring St Peter's Church, Lew Trenchard, and thoroughly remodelled his home, Lew Trenchard Manor.
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Sabine Baring-Gould regarded his principal achievement to be the collection of folk songs that he made with the help of the ordinary people of Cornwall and Devon.
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Sharp and Sabine Baring-Gould collaborated on English Folk Songs for Schools during 1907.
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Sabine Baring-Gould gave the fair copies of the folk songs he collected, together with the notebooks he used for gathering information in the field, to Plymouth Public Library in 1914.
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These, together with the folk-song manuscripts from Sabine Baring-Gould's library discovered at Killerton in 1998, were published as a microfiche edition in 1998.
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Sabine Baring-Gould wrote many novels, including The Broom-Squire set in the Devil's Punch Bowl, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Guavas the Tinner, the 16-volume The Lives of the Saints, and the biography of the eccentric poet-vicar of Morwenstow, Robert Stephen Hawker.
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Sabine Baring-Gould published nearly 200 short stories in assorted magazines and periodicals.
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Sabine Baring-Gould habitually wrote while standing, and his desk can be seen in the manor.
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Sabine Baring-Gould wrote much about the West Country: his works of this topic include:.
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Sabine Baring-Gould served as president of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for ten years from 1897.
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Sabine Baring-Gould was the secretary and author of the first ten annual reports until 1905.
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Sabine Baring-Gould was president of the Devonshire Association for the year 1896.
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Sabine Baring-Gould wrote much about Dartmoor: his works of this topic include:.
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Sabine Baring-Gould married Grace Taylor on 25 May 1868 at Horbury.