We are not divided,
All one body we,
One in hope and doctrine
One in charity ...
        (Onward, Christian Soldiers, 25-28)

1. Onward, Christian Soldiers

Notes on Life and Works

An often-published antiquarian, novelist, and travel writer, Baring-Gould was born in Exeter and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. In 1864 he became curate of Horbury, Yorkshire, but moved to become rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon, in 1881, when he inherited his family estate there, and stayed until his death. William Ernest Purcell wrote a biography in Onward Christian Soldier: A Life of Sabine Baring-Gould, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary (London: Longmans, Green, 1957; PR 4062 .P85 Trinity College Library).

• Colloms, Brenda. “Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834-1924).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Sabine
Family name: Baring-Gould
Birth date: 28 January 1824
Death date: 2 January 1924
Education
          King's College, London: 1844 to 1846
          Warwick grammar school: 1846
          Clare College, Cambridge (B.A.): 1853 to 1856
Literary period: Victorian
Occupation: Priest: 1865
Residences
          Exeter: 1834
          Ripon: 1864
          Horbury Brig: 1865
          East Mersea, Essex: 1871
          Lew Trenchard, Devon: 1881 to 1924
Buried at: Lew Trenchard churchyard