British author, folklorist, scholar and clergyman, perhaps best known (or best not known) for writing the famous hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers." A prolific author in a number of genres (he authored a collection of ghost stories, Book of Ghosts, as well as a folkloric study of werewolves), Baring-Gould himself regarded his collections of folk songs to be one of his major achievements. One of the ballads he collected, "Lady Howard," is a fine supernatural balld available at LitGothic.
