[Illustration: AGE 5.
_From a Miniature._]
[Illustration: AGE 10.
_From a Drawing._]
[Illustration: AGE 35.
_From a Photo. by Hall, Wakefield._]
[Illustration: AGE 46.
_From a Photo. by Barnes, Colchester._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]
The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, who has of late years won world-wide
popularity as the writer of "Mehalah," "John Herring," and many other
novels, was born at Exeter, and is the eldest son of Mr. Edward
Baring-Gould, of Lew-Trenchard, Devon, where the family has resided for
nearly 300 years, and of which place he is now the Rector. He is also
Justice of the Peace for the County of Devon. He had written on various
subjects of historical research before he took to novel-writing.