Charles Thomas Baring (11January 180714September 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

Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (12 June 1772 – 3 April 1848), was a British banker and Member of Parliament. Early life Baring was born on 12 June 1772. A member of the Baring family, he was the eldest son of Harriet (née Herring) Baring ...

, 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

Thomas Charles Baring Thomas Charles Baring DL (16 May 1831 – 2 April 1891) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. Life Baring, informally called "T. C." or "Charley" to distinguish him from the other Thomases in the Baring family, was the so ...

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

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

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. He became a bishop at a period when

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, 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

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on 14 September, and was interred at Holy Innocents Church at

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, 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, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful carpenter in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on ...

‘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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