Editing William S. Baring-Gould

{{Infobox writer
| name             = William S. Baring-Gould
| birth_date       = 1913
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1967|8|10|1913|df=y}}
| occupation       = Novelist, writer
| notable_works    = [[Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective]]
| genre            = Fiction, mystery, detective
}}

'''William Stuart Baring-Gould''' (1913 &ndash; 10 August 1967) was a noted [[Sherlock Holmes]] scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography ''[[Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street|Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective]]''.

==Biography==

He was the son of William Drake Baring-Gould (1878–1921), a grandson of [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] and a [[Johann Baring#Family tree|descendant of John Baring]]. 

He married Lucile "Ceil" Marguerite Moody (1914–2010) in 1936. They had a son William (d. 1966) and a daughter Judy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csog.com/obits/lucile-moody-baring-gould/|title=Lucile Moody Baring-Gould|website=csog.com}}</ref>

He was creative director of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]]'s circulation and corporate education departments from 1937 until his death.

==Writing==
In 1955, Baring-Gould privately published ''The Chronological Holmes'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sherlockian.net/investigating/baring-gould/|title=Baring-Gould|website=sherlockian.net}}</ref> an attempt to lay out, in chronological order, all the events alluded to in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Three years later, Baring-Gould wrote ''The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained'' with his wife, Lucile "Ceil" Baring-Gould.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/atlanta/name/lucile-baring-gould-obituary?id=27419662|title=Lucile Baring-Gould Obituary (2010) Atlanta Journal-Constitution|website=Legacy.com}}</ref> The book provides a wealth of information about nursery rhymes and includes often-banned bawdy rhymes. In 1967, Baring-Gould published ''The Annotated Sherlock Holmes'', an annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Baring-Gould also wrote ''The Lure of the Limerick'', a study of the history and allure of limericks, published in 1967; it included a collection of limericks, arranged alphabetically, and a bibliography. In 1969 was published posthumously ''Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street: The Life and Times of America's Largest Private Detective'', a fictional biography of [[Rex Stout]]'s detective character [[Nero Wolfe]]; in this book, Baring-Gould popularised the theory that Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes and [[Irene Adler]].

==Major works==
* ''New Chronology of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (''[[The Baker Street Journal]]'' 1948, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 107–125 and Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 238–251)
* ''The Chronological Holmes'' (self-published in 300 copies, 1955)
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street]]'' (Bramhall House, New York, 1962)
* ''The Annotated Mother Goose'' (Bramhall House, New York, 1962)
* ''The Annotated Sherlock Holmes'' (Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1967)
* ''The Lure of the Limerick'' (Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1967)
* ''Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street'' ([[Viking Press]], New York, 1969)

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