His vicar, John Sharp, arranged for Grace to live for two years with relatives in York to learn middle class manners. It was while acting as a curate that he met Grace Taylor, the daughter of a mill hand, then aged fourteen. During 1864, he became the curate at Horbury Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1852 he was admitted to Cambridge University, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1857, then Master of Arts in 1860 from Clare College, Cambridge. His father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour. Here his time was ended by a bronchial disease of the kind that was to plague him throughout his long life. He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London (then located in Somerset House) and then, for a few months, at Warwick Grammar School (now Warwick School). Because the family spent much of his childhood travelling round Europe, most of his education was by private tutors. The eldest son of Edward Baring-Gould and his first wife, Sophia Charlotte (née Bond), he was named after a great-uncle, the Arctic explorer Sir Edward Sabine. Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter.
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