Charles Baring
Charles Thomas Baring (1807–1879) was an English bishop, noted as an Evangelical.
Life
He became a bishop at a period when Lord Palmerston, influenced by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was promoting Evangelicals.[1]
He was Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, then Bishop of Durham from 1861 to 1879. He came into conflict with High Church clergy.[2] He suspended Francis Grey, rector of Morpeth, as Rural Dean, for wearing a stole of which he disapproved.[3]
Family
He was related to the Baring banking family. His father was Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet. Thomas Baring was his son.[4]
References
- Mandell Creighton, ‘Baring, Charles Thomas (1807–1879)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
Notes
- ^ David William Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989), p. 107.
- ^ http://www.chinstitute.org/DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-22-2003.shtml
- ^ http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_111_3_Scotland.pdf, p. 7.
- ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p3458.htm#i34575
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