Richard Baron (c. 1700-1768) was an English dissenting minister, Whig pamphleteer, and editor of Locke, Milton and others.
[1] 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.
; 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.
Hollis engaged him in 1766 to superintend an edition of Andrew Marvell; but the plan was dropped and it was later taken up by Edward Thompson in 1776.