Charles Baring

For other people named Charles Baring, seeCharles Baring (disambiguation).

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

Charles Baring
Bishop of Durham
Diocese	Diocese of Durham
In office	1861–1879
Predecessor	Henry Montagu Villiers
Successor	Joseph Lightfoot
Other post(s)	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol(1856–1861)
Orders
Ordination	1830 (deacon); 1831 (priest)
Consecration	c. 1856
Personal details
Born	(1807-01-11)11 January 1807
Died	14 September 1879(1879-09-14)(aged 72) Wimbledon,Surrey,United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Thomas& Mary
Spouse	1. Mary (m. 1830) 2. Caroline (m. 1846)
Children	inc.Thomas& Francis
Occupation	Preacher
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Brass plaque memorial to Charles Baring in Holy Innocents Church, High Beach, Essex, the place where he is interred

Early life, family and education

Baring was born into theBaring bankingfamily on 11 January 1807, the fourth son ofSir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet,and Mary née Sealy. Having been educated privately as a child, he read classics and mathematics atChrist Church, Oxford,before ordination, and was President of theOxford Union.He first married Mary Sealy (who died in 1840) in 1830; they had at least one child – Tory politicianThomas Charles Baringwas 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 byRichard Bagot,Bishop of Oxford,Baring began his ecclesiastical career atSt Ebbe's, OxfordandKings Worthybefore taking the benefice ofAll Souls', Marylebone,in 1847. He moved toLimpsfieldin 1855, but was soon electedBishop of Gloucester and Bristol.He became a bishop at a period whenLord Palmerston,influenced byAnthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,was promoting Evangelicals.

He translated to the see of Durham in 1861, where asBishop of Durhamhe came into conflict withHigh Churchclergy, for example suspending Francis Grey, rector ofMorpeth,asRural Dean,for wearing astoleof which he disapproved.He resigned due to ill health on 2 February 1879 and died inWimbledonon 14 September, and was interred at Holy Innocents Church atHigh Beach,Essex.

Styles and titles

• 6 June 1830 – 1856:The ReverendCharles Baring
• 1856 – 14 September 1879:The Right ReverendCharles Baring

Sources

• Mandell Creighton,‘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)