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About Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould was a 19th-century English priest and scholar. Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. Read more on Wikipedia →

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