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    William S. Baring-Gould

    William Stuart Baring-Gould ( &#; 10 August ) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential fictional biography Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective.

    Biography

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    He was the son of William Drake Baring-Gould (–), a grandson of Sabine Baring-Gould and a descendant of John Baring.

    He married Lucile "Ceil" Marguerite Moody (–) in They had a son William (d. ) and a daughter Judy.[1]

    He was creative director of Time magazine's circulation and corporate education departments from until his death.

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    In , Baring-Gould privately published The Chronological Holmes,[2] an attempt to lay out, in chronological beställning, all the events alluded to in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Three years later, Baring-Gould wrote The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained with his wife, Lucile "Ceil" Baring-Gould.&#

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    Sabine Baring-Gould

    English priest and scholar (–)

    Sabine Baring-Gould

    Sabine Baring-Gould, engraving published in Strand Magazine, from a photograph by Downey (died )

    Born()28 January

    St Sidwells, Exeter, England

    Died2 January () (aged&#;89)

    Lew Trenchard, Devon, England

    NationalityBritish
    Alma&#;materClare College, Cambridge
    Occupation(s)Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar

    Sabine Baring-Gould (; 28 January – 2 January ) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1, publications, though this list continues to grow.

    He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carols "Gabriel's Message", and "Sing Lullaby" from Basque to English.

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    Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian

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    Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of the Victorian Age. Born as the heir to an estate in Devon, he received an erratic education travelling on the continent. Eventually he became a clergyman, and when thirty he married an eighteen year old mill girl, and act which attracted national interest and comment.

    Over the next sixty years he became famous as a pioneer archaeologist, the first collector of West Country folk music, composer of hymns, a writer on theology - he was extremely critical of his Church - and one of the most popular novelists of the day.

    As well as this staggering output, he ran his large estate with compassion, and as if to cement his Victorian credentials he and Grace had fifteen children. He died in aged eighty nine. This bi