Charles Baring

For other uses, see Charles Baring (disambiguation).

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 a member of 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

1. ^ David William Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989), p. 107.
2. ^ http://www.chinstitute.org/DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-22-2003.shtml
3. ^ http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_111_3_Scotland.pdf, p. 7.
4. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p3458.htm#i34575

External links

• http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/25303

Church of England titles
Preceded by James Henry Monk	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1856–1861	Succeeded by William Thomson
Preceded by Henry Villiers	Bishop of Durham 1861–1879	Succeeded by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Name	Baring, Charles
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Date of birth	1807
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Date of death	1879
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