Richard Baron [Barron]

Richard Baron [Barron] (d. 1766) was a political writer and editor of literary texts (his obituary appeared in the Protestant Dissenter’s Magazine in 1766). According to W. T. Whitley he worshiped among the Baptists at Deptford and at Paul’s Alley, London. He was educated at Glasgow (1737-40), and worked with Thomas Hollis in collecting 17th c. tracts concerning republicanism. Among his edited collections are Algernon Sidney's Discourse Concerning Government and Thomas Gordon’s A Cordial for Low Spirits (both in 1751), and The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken (1752; 4 vol. ed, 1768), and John Milton’s prose works (1753) and Milton’s Eikonoklastes (1756), and Marchamont Nedham's Excellencie of a Free State (1757), as well as an edition of Andrew Marvell’s works that was aborted at the time of his death.