Charles Thomas Baring (11 January 1807 – 14 September 1879) was an English bishop, noted as an

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Early life, family and education

Baring was born into the Baring banking family on 11 January 1807, the fourth son of

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, and Mary née Sealy. Having been educated privately as a child, he read classics and mathematics at

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, before ordination, and was President of the

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. He first married Mary Sealy (who died in 1840) in 1830; they had at least one child – Tory politician

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was their son. He later remarried in 1846, his cousin Caroline Kemp, with whom he had further children – their son Francis became a priest. Caroline survived Charles.

Career

Ordained a deacon on 6 June 1830 and a priest on 29 May 1831 by Richard Bagot,

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, Baring began his ecclesiastical career at

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and Kings Worthy before taking the benefice of All Souls', Marylebone, in 1847. He moved to

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in 1855, but was soon elected Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. He became a bishop at a period when Lord Palmerston, influenced by

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, was promoting Evangelicals. He translated to the see of Durham in 1861, where as

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he came into conflict with

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clergy, for example suspending Francis Grey, rector of Morpeth, as

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, for wearing a stole of which he disapproved.Scotland, Nigel. Evangelicals, Anglicans and Ritualism in Victorian England (p. 7)
(Accessed 1 February 2014) He resigned due to ill health on 2 February 1879 and died in Wimbledon on 14 September, and was interred at Holy Innocents Church at High Beach, Essex.

Styles and titles

*6 June 1830 – 1856: ''

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'' Charles Baring *1856 – 14 September 1879: ''

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'' Charles Baring

References

Sources

Mandell Creighton Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Di ...

‘Baring, Charles Thomas (1807–1879)’
rev. H. C. G. Matthew, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004

External links

Picture History – Charles Baring (1807-1879)
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