Baptist Wriothesley Noel

He was the tenth son and sixteenth of eighteen children born to Sir Gerard Noel and Diana, Baroness Barham.

Noel attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge before entering the Middle Temple to become a barrister.

Noel published some eighty books and pamphlets in his lifetime, chiefly concerned either with social and political reform, or with evangelical beliefs and attitudes, or with the nature of the Christian Church as a spiritual fellowship embracing all true believers.

[3] That same year, when Robert Peel's government refused to fund the building of churches in Scotland and England, while granting an increase in the annual subsidy to the Catholic seminary of Maynooth in Ireland, Noel speaks out against the inconsistency of Parliament.

[4] A few months later, he went to Switzerland to better understand a Christian secession movement advocating the separation of church and state.

[5] Before his resignation, he also published a commentary presenting baptismal regeneration (pedobaptism) as contrary to evangelical teaching.

[11] Baptist Noel retired from active ministry in 1868 and spent his remaining years at Stanmore, Middlesex.