Editing Sabine Baring-Gould (section)

==Family==
He married Grace Taylor on 25 May 1868 at Horbury. They had 15 children: Mary (born 1869), Margaret Daisy (born 1870, an artist who painted part of the screen in Lew Trenchard Church), Edward Sabine (born 1871), Beatrice Gracieuse (1874–1876), Veronica (born 1875), Julian (born 1877), William Drake (born 1878), Barbara (born 1880), Diana Amelia (born 1881), Felicitas (baptised 1883), Henry (born 1885), Joan (born 1887), Cecily Sophia (born 1889), John Hillary (born 1890), and Grace (born 1891).

His wife Grace died in April 1916, and he did not remarry; he died on 2 January 1924 at his home at Lew Trenchard and was buried next to his wife.

He wrote two volumes of memoirs: ''Early Reminiscences, 1834–1864'' (1923) and ''Further Reminiscences, 1864–1894'' (1925).

One grandson, [[William S. Baring-Gould|William Stuart Baring-Gould]], was a noted [[Sherlock Holmes]] scholar who wrote a fictional biography of the great detective—in which, to make up for the lack of information about Holmes's early life, he based his account on the childhood of Sabine Baring-Gould. Sabine himself is a major character of [[Laurie R. King]]'s Sherlock Holmes novel ''[[The Moor (novel)|The Moor]]'', a Sherlockian pastiche.  In this novel it is revealed that Sabine Baring-Gould is the godfather of Sherlock Holmes.

Radio actor [[Robert Burnard (actor)|Robert Burnard]] was his grandson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244343583|title=Well-Known Radio Actor Dies|date=1950-11-09|newspaper=[[The Herald (Melbourne)|The Herald]]|location=Melbourne|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref> Comedian [[Josh Widdicombe]] is a distant descendant.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}