Male : Novelist, Essayist, Hymn Writer ("Onward Christian Soldiers") & Miscellanous Writer. Married Grace Taylor, a young mill-hand, in 1868. They had 15 children. Prolific writer - the British Museum catalogue lists more books by him in his era than any other author

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Exeter, Devon

Date of Birth : 1834 Date of Death : 1924 Age : 90

Other Work : Curate at Horbury in Yorkshire. 1866 Vicar at Dalton, Yorks. 1870-1881 Rector at East Mersea, Essex & Rector of Lew Trenchard in Devon 1881-1924

Education : Clare College, Cambridge

1854-1870
The Path of the Just (1854 Masters)
Iceland : Its Scenes and Sagas (1863 Smith Elder)
Offered in 1998 for £385
Post-Medieval Preachers (1865 Rivington)
The Book of Were-Wolves (1865 Smith Elder)
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages : Two Series (1866-8 Rivington)
Through Flood & Fame (1868 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Silver Store : Collected from Medieval Christian & Jewish Mines (1868 Longmans Green)
Curiosities of Olden Times (1869 Hayes)
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief (1869-70 Rivington) - 2 vols
The Golden Gate (1869-70 Simpkin Marshall)
In Exitu Israel : An Historical Novel (1870 Macmillan) - 2 vols

1871-1875
Legends Lives of Old Testament Characters (1871-82 Macmillan) - 2 vols
A Humdred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers (1872 Masters)
Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets (1872 Holt & Williams, US)
Secular v. Religious Education (1872)
The Lives of the Saints (1872-7 John Hodges, London) - 15 vols
(1897-8 Nimmo) - 16 Vols
(1914 Grant) - 16 Vols
Village Conferences on the Creed (1873 Masters)
The Lost and Hostile Gospels (1874 Williams & Norgate)
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents & Strange Events (1874 Hodges) - 2 vols
Some Modern Difficulties (1875 Skeffington)
Village Preaching for a Year : 1st Series (1875 Skeffington) - 3 vols
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents & Strange Events (1875 John Hodges, London 2nd Ed) - 2 vols

1876-1880
The Vicar of Morwenstow : A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker (1876 King)
The Mystery of Suffering (1877 Skeffington)
Sermons to Children : 1st Series (1879 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Germany : Present and Past (1879 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols
Ernestine (1879 De La Rue) - 2 vols
The Preacher's Pocket (1880 Skeffington)
Mehalah (1880 Smith Elder) - 3 vols

1881-1885
The Village Pulpit (1881 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Village Preaching for Saints' Days (1881 Skeffington)
Germany (1883 Sampson Low)
John Herring (1883 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Village Preaching for a Year : 2nd Series (1884 Skeffington) - 2 vols
The Seven Last Words (1884 Skeffington)
The Passion of Jesus (1885 Skeffington)
The Birth of Jesus (1885 Skeffington)
tell Me a Tale (1885 Skeffington)
Our Parish Church (1885 Skeffington)

1886-1888
Nazareth and Capernaum (1886 Skeffington)
The Trials of Jesus (1886 Skeffington)
Germany (1886 Unwin) - with A Gilman
Court Royal (1886 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Red Spider (1887 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
The Way of Sorrows (1887 Skeffington)
Little Tu'Penny (1887 Ward & Downey)
The Gaverocks (1887 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Richard Cable The Lightshipman (1888 Smith Elder)
Eve (1888 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
The Death & Resurrection of Jesus (1888 Skeffington)
Our Inheritance (1888 Skeffington) - 2 vols

1889-1890
Historic Oddities & Strange Events : Two Series (1889-91 Methuen)
Songs and Ballads of the West (1889-91 3 parts : Patey & Willis, London)
(1891-5 Methuen) - with H Fleetwood Sheppard & F W Bussell
Old Country Life (1889 Methuen)
The Pennycomequicks (1889 Spencer Blackett) - 3 vols
Arminell (1889 Methuen) - 3 vols
My Prague Pig (1890 Skeffington)
Old Country Life (1890 Methuen) - F D Bedford
Jacquetta & Other Stories (1890 Methuen)
Grettir the Outlaw : A Story of Iceland in the Days of the Vikings
(1890 Blackie) - M Zeno Diemer
Conscience and Sin (1890 Skeffington)

1891-1895
In Troubadour Land : A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc (1891 Allen)
History of the Church in Germany (1891 Wells Gardner Darton)
Urith : A Tale of Dartmoor (1891 Methuen) - 3 vols
Margery of Quether (1891 Methuen)
Historic Oddities & Strange Events : 2nd Series (1891 Methuen)
In the Roar of the Sea (1892 Methuen) - 3 vols
Through All the Changing Scenes of Life (1892 SPCK) - 3 vols
The Tragedy of the Caesars (1892 Methuen) - 2 vols
Strange Survivals and Superstitions (1892 Methuen)
Mrs Curgenven of Curvengen (1893 Methuen) - 3 vols
Cheap Jack Zita (1893 Methuen) - 3 vols
The Queen of Love : A Novel (1894 Methuen) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £300
The Deserts of Southern France - an Introduction to the Limestone & Chalk Plateaux of
Ancient Aquitaine (1894 Methuen) - 2 vols. - F D Bedford
(1894 NY) - 2 vols
The Icelander's Sword (1894 Methuen)
A Book of Fairy Tales (1894 Methuen) - 75. Arthur J Gaskin
Ltd Ed offered in 1997 for £275
(1895 Methuen. 2nd Ed)
A Garland of Country Song (1895 Methuen) - with H F Sheppard
Old English Fairy Tales (1895 Methuen) - F D Bedford
A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (1895 Methuen)
- A J Gaskin & Members of the Birmingham School of Art
English Minstrelsie (1895-7 Jack) - 8 vols
Noemi (1895 Methuen)
Kitty Alone (1895 Methuen)

1896-1900
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1896)
The Broom-Squire (1896 Methuen) - Frank Dadd
Dartmoor Idylls (1896 Methuen)
Guavas the Tinner (1897 Methuen) - Frank Dadd
Bladys of the Stewponey (1897 Methuen)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1897 Methuen 36/-)
A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1897 Methuen) - F D Bedford
Perpetua (1897 Isbister)
A Study of St Paul (1897 Isbister)
The Sunday Round (1898-9 Skeffington) - 4 vols
An Armory of the Western Countries (1898 Commins) - 250
An Old English Home (1898 Methuen)
Domitia (1898 Methuen)
Pabo the Priest (1899 Methuen)
Furze-Bloom : Tales of the Western Moors (1899 Methuen)
The Crock of Gold (1899 Methuen)
The Book of the West (1899 Methuen) - 2 vols
Virgin Saints and Martyrs (1900 Hutchinson)
In a Quiet Village (1900 Isbister) - ss
Winefred (1900 Methuen)
Dartmoor : A Descriptive & Historical Sketch (1900 Methuen)

1901-1905
The Frobishers : A Story of the Staffordshire Potteries (1901 Methuen)
A Book of Britanny (1901 Methuen)
Royal Georgie (1901 Methuen) - D Murray Smith
Miss Quillet (1902 Methuen 6/-) - G Grenville Manton
Nebo the Nailer (1902 Cassell)
A Coronation Souvenir (1902 Skeffington)
Britanny (1902 Methuen Little Guide)
In the Roar of the Sea (1902)
Chris of All Sorts (1903 Methuen)
A Book of North Wales (1903 Methuen)
A Book of North Wales (1903)
Amazing Adventures (1903 Warne)
In Dewisland (1904 Methuen)
Siegfried : A Romance founded on Wagner's Operas (1904 Dean) - Charles Robinson
A Book of Ghosts (1904 Methuen) - D Murray Smith
A Book of South Wales (1905 Methuen)
A Book of the Riviera (1905 Methuen)
Monsieur Pichelmere & Other Stories (1905 Digby Long)
A Memorial of Horatio Lord Nelson (1905 Skeffington)
Songs of the West : Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall (1905 Methuen)
- with Sheppard & F W Bussell

1906-1910
A Book of the Rhine (1906 Methuen)
English Folk-Songs for Schools (1906 Curwen) - with Cecil Sharp
The Restitution of All Things (1907 Skeffington)
Lives of the British Saints (1907-13 Cymmrodorion Society) - 4 vols. with John Fisher
A Book of the Pyrenees (1907 Methuen)
Sermons to Children : 2nd Series (1907 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Devon (1907 Methuen Little Guide)
A Life of Nero (1907 Royal Library)
A Book of the Cevennes (1907 Long)
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (1908 JL, Bodley Head)
The Baring-Gould selection Reader (1908 Methuen)
The Baring-Gould Continuous Reader (1908 Methuen)
Cornish Characters & Strange Events (1909 JL, Bodley Head)
A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908
(1909 Sotheran) - with C A Bampfylde
Family Names and Their Story (1910 Seeley)
Cornwall (1910 CUP)

AFTER 1911
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe (1911 Seeley)
A Coronation Souvenir (1911 Skeffington)
Hymns for the Coronation of His Majesty King George V (1911 Skeffington)
Church Songs (1911-12 SPCK) - 2 vols
The Land of Teck & Its Neighbourhood (1911 John Lane)
Village Sermons to Simple Souls (1912 Skeffington)
A Book of Folk Lore (1913 Methuen)
The Church Revival (1914 Methuen)
The Evangelical Revival (1920 Methuen)
Early Reminiscences 1834-64 (1923 John Lane)
My Few Last Words (1924 Skeffington)
Further Reminiscences 1864-1894 (1925 JL, Bodley Head)
Margery of Quether & Other Weird Tales (1999 Sarob Press £20)

READING
William Purcell : Onward Christian Soldier - A Life of Baring-Gould (1957 Longmans 21/-)
Bickford H C Dickinson : Sabine Baring-Gould - Squarson, Writer & Folklorist
(1970 David & Charles)
Cicely Briggs : The Manor of Lew (1993 Praxis, Pulborough)
Harry Kirk-Smith : Now the Day is Over - The Life & Times of Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924
(1997 Richard Kay £20)
Keith Lister : Half My Life - The Story of Sabine Baring-Gould and Grace
(2002 Charnwood £12.95)