BARING-GOULD (Sabine, 1834-1924, Divine and Author)

Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed correspondent saying that “it is very interesting that you should have found a horse hoof[?] in the churchyard, it is quite possible it may have been one of those found to haunt it. I suppose you did not... to see for other horse bones...”, 1 side sm. 8vo., Lew Trenchard, N. Devon, 16th November

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. The manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers".
He took Holy Orders in 1864, and became the curate at Horbury Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire. It was while acting as a curate that he met Grace Taylor, the daughter of a mill hand, then aged fourteen. In the next few years they fell in love. His vicar, John Sharp, arranged for Grace to live for two years with relatives in York to learn middle-class manners. Baring-Gould, meanwhile, relocated to become perpetual curate at Dalton, near Thirsk. He and Grace were married in 1868 at Wakefield.

Item Date:  1897

Stock No:  42772      £145

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