Sabine Baring-Gould
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Reverend William Sabine Baring-Gould (1834 - January 2 1924) was a British Victorian novelist, composer, and collector of folk-songs. His best known work is the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers.
His collection of west-country folk-music, The Songs of the West, has helped to preserve for later generations many beautiful pieces of music and their lyrics which otherwise would have been lost to time.
He was the author of many novels and also the biographer of the eccentric poet-vicar of Morwenstow, Robert Stephen Hawker.
Baring-Gould's grandson, William Stuart Baring-Gould, was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar who wrote a fictional biography of the fictional detective - in which, to make up for the lack of information about Holmes's early life, he based his account of Holmes's formative years on the childhood of the Reverend Baring-Gould.
His family home, Lewtrenchard Manor, has been successfully preserved and is today a hotel.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Sabine Baring-Gould" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould January 1, 2004
