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Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Feb. 4, 1817. [16th child and 11th] s. of Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Bart. (sub Edwards, 1776) [and Diana, Baroness Barham]. B. [July 10, 1799], in Edinburgh. School, Westminster. ' Matric. Michs. 1818; Scholar, 1820; M.A. 1821. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 12, 1821. Took Holy Orders. C. of Cossington, Leics. Minister of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1827-48. Became a leading Evangelical preacher. Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, 1841-9. Resigned from the Church of England, Aug. 9, 1849, and was baptised, by immersion, in John Street Baptist Chapel. Baptist minister there, 1849-68. President of the Baptist Union, 1855 and 1867. Gave vigorous support to the North in the American Civil War. Married, Oct. 17, 1826, Jane, eldest dau. of Peter Baillie, of Dochfour, Inverness-shire. Author of religious and controversial works. Died Jan. 19, 1873, at Stanmore, Middlesex. Father of Ernest (1856) and Wriothesley B. (1846); brother of Charles N. (1801), Gerard T. (1801), Berkeley O. (1819), and Leland (1817). (Records of Old Westminsters; Boase, II. 1159; Burke, P. and B. (sub Gainsborough); Burke, Col. Gentry, I. 124; Inns of Court; D.N.B.)