NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Baron, Richard, ca. 1720-1768 DNB: Baron, Richard (d. 1766), literary editor and political writer LBT ID: RiBaron1768 VIAF ID: 39730099 LOC ID: nr91009968 | B/BAP: 1720 DIED: 1768-02-22 |
SOURCES: Richard Vickerman Taylor, Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 170-73; William Blazeby, Rotherham: the old Meeting-house and its Ministers (1906) 113; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
Born in Leeds and educated at Glasgow University, he was assistant minister at Rotherham
(1740-43) and editor of seventeenth-century republican writings who died in poverty. | |