Introduction

Biography

Baptist was the 16th of 18 child­ren of Sir Ger­ard No­el and Di­a­na Mid­dle­ton, Bar­on­ess Bar­ham; hus­band of Jane Bail­lie; bro­ther of Ger­ard Noel; and un­cle of Ca­ro­line No­el.

He was edu­cat­ed at West­min­ster School and Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Cam­bridge, then en­tered the Mid­dle Tem­ple to be­come a barr­is­ter.

Taking Ho­ly Or­ders in 1824, he was for some time in­cum­bent of St. John’s Epis­co­pal Cha­pel, Bed­ford Row, Lon­don, and chap­lain to Queen Vic­tor­ia.

In 1848, he left the Church of Eng­land and sub­se­quent­ly be­came a Bap­tist min­is­ter. He was pas­tor of St. John’s Street Cha­pel, Be­dford Row, un­til 1868.

He twice served as Pre­si­dent of the Bap­tist Un­ion.

Works

• A Se­lec­tion of Psalms and Hymns Adapt­ed Chief­ly for Con­gre­ga­tion­al Use and So­cial Worship, 1832, 1838, 1848, 1853, etc.
• State of the Me­tro­po­lis Con­sid­ered, 1835
• Plea for the Poor, 1841
• Essay on the Un­ion of Church and State (New York: Har­per & Bro­thers, 1849)
• The Doom of Im­pe­ni­tent Sin­ners (Lon­don: James Nis­bet, 1859)
• Freedom and Sla­ve­ry in the Unit­ed States of Am­er­ica (Lon­don: James Nis­bet, 1863)
• The Un­i­ty of the Church, An­oth­er Tract for the Times, Ad­dressed Es­pe­cial­ly to Mem­bers of the Es­tab­lish­ment, Re­print­ed at the Re­quest of the Mis­sion­ar­ies of All De­no­mi­na­tions in Cal­cut­ta (Sy­dney, Aus­tral­ia: Sta­tham & For­ster, Aus­tral­ia­n Office, 1846)
• Hymns About Je­sus