Richard Baxter
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Richard Baxter (12 november 1615 - 8 december 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as the "chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also began a long and prolific career as theological writer.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Sherlock Holmes never heard of such a case as this (The Boscombe Valley Mystery) that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say: "There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes." (BOSC 622).
However, the well-known phrase "There, but for the grace of God, go I" is most often attributed to John Bradford (1510–1555), an English Protestant clergyman and martyr.
