Richard Baron

Richard Baron (c. 1700–1768) was an English dissenting minister, Whig pamphleteer, and editor of Locke, Milton and others.

Life He was born at Leeds, and educated at the University of Glasgow from 1737 to 1740, which he left with a testimonial signed by Francis Hutcheson and Robert Simson. Baron became a friend of Thomas Gordon, author of the Independent Whig, and afterwards of Thomas Hollis, whom he helped in collecting works defending the republicanism of the seventeenth century.

He had a congregation at Pinners' Hall, London in 1753.

Works He edited in 1751 a collection of tracts by Gordon, under the title, A Cordial for Low Spirits, 3 vols.; and in 1752 a similar collection by Gordon and others, called The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy shaken, in 2 vols. An enlarged edition of the last, in four volumes, including tracts by Benjamin Hoadly, Arthur Ashley Sykes, William Arnall, and Francis Blackburne, was prepared by him, and published in 1767 for the benefit of his widow and three children.