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Baring (surname)
Baring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Baring family, a German-British banking family *Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), British banker *Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835–1889), British landowner and politician * Arnulf Baring (1932–2019), German historian *Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799–1864) *Charles Baring (1807–1879), Bishop of Durham *Charles Baring, 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 1937), English horticulturalist *Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1828–1897), British banker *Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), British colonial administrator *Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1903–1973), Governor of Kenya *Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), English merchant banker who established merchant house of Barings *Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (1796–1866), British Whig politician, First Lord of the Admiralty * Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook (born 1954), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baring Family
The Baring family is a German and British family of merchants and bankers. In Germany, the family belongs to the ''Bildungsbürgertum'', and in England, it belongs to the aristocracy. History The family's earliest known ancestor is Peter Baring (or Petrus Baring), who was a burgher of the city of Groningen, then a semi-independent city-state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hanseatic League, now part of the Netherlands, around 1500. Peter Baring's son Franz Baring (Franciscus Baringius) became the first Lutheran bishop of Lauenburg in what is now Lower Saxony in Germany from 1565. The current family in Germany and England is descended from Franz Baring. In the Electorate of Hanover, the Baring family belonged to the upper bourgeoisie, the so-called '' Hübsche Familien'' (from ''hübsch'', pretty, or good looking), which comprised the third division of the ruling class of the Holy Roman Empire, after the nobility and the clergy. The English branch of the family is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Baring
Guy Victor Baring (26 February 1873 – 15 September 1916) was a British Army officer and politician. He became a Conservative member of the British House of Commons but was one of 22 Members killed in action in the First World War. Background Baring was a member of the Baring family of Barings Bank, a younger son of Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835–1889), and his wife Leonora Caroline Digby. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1893. In 1899 Baring's unit was sent to fight in the South African War, and he was present at the battles of Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, and Driefontein, as well as the occupation of Bloemfontein. During the fighting in South Africa he was mentioned in despatches, and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps. Baring was the commander of a detachment of the Coldstream Guards in 1900 which went with the Australia and New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Baring
Thomas Charles Baring DL (16 May 1831 – 2 April 1891) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. Life Baring, informally called "T.C." or "Charley" to distinguish him from the other Thomases, was the son of the Right Reverend Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham, younger son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet. His mother was Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealy. He was educated at Harrow and Wadham College, Oxford, before becoming a partner in the family firm of Baring Brothers & Co. In 1874 Baring gave £30,000 to enable Magdalen Hall in Oxford to be refounded as Hertford College, Oxford by means of an act of parliament. He entered Parliament for Essex South in 1874, a seat he held until 1885, and later represented the City of London from 1887 to 1891. Baring also served as a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Middlesex, London and Westminster, was a member of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea from 1885 to 1887, and the author of among other works ''Pinda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baring (1799–1873)
Thomas Baring (7 September 1799 – 18 November 1873) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician. Background and education Baring was the second son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, and Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealy. Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, was his elder brother, and the Right Reverend Charles Baring one of his younger brothers. He was educated at Winchester. Business career As a second son, Thomas was destined for a career in the "counting house". Beginning at Hope & Co., he did well in Amsterdam, becoming a partner in 1824. Despite the lobbying of Sir Thomas, the opposition of his uncle Alexander kept Thomas from a partnership in Baring Brothers & Co. until 1828. Once installed in London, Thomas sought, during the 1830s and 40s, to use knowledge and connections gained at Hopes to increase the firm's visibility in Europe. Except in Russia, Barings was mostly frustrated in these efforts by more established continental houses like Rothschilds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Baring
Sarah Kathleen Elinor Baring (''née'' Norton; 20 January 1920 – 4 February 2013) was an English socialite and memoirist, who worked for three years as a linguist at Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. She was married to William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, from 1945 to 1953. Early life She was born Hon. Sarah Kathleen Elinor Norton on 20 January 1920, the daughter of the filmmaker Richard Norton, 6th Baron Grantley, and his wife, Jean Mary (née Kinloch). Career During the war, she worked for ''Vogue'' and the ''Baltimore Sun'' for a short time, then as a telephonist at an Air Raid Precautions Centre, before building Hurricane fighter planes at a Hawker Siddeley factory close to Slough, and shared a cottage with a colleague Osla Benning. They were both god-daughters of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who suggested to Sarah that she might "find a nice girl" for his nephew, Prince Philip. Sarah introduced Benning, and she became P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl Of Cromer
Lieutenant Colonel George Rowland Stanley Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, (28 July 1918 – 16 March 1991), styled Viscount Errington before 1953, was a British banker and diplomat. After serving during the Second World War, he was Governor of the Bank of England (1961–1966) and British Ambassador to the United States (1971–1974). Early life and military career A member of the Baring family and the eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Cromer and his wife Ruby Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he left after a year. He served with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, where he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Banking and diplomatic career After serving as private secretary to Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon in 1938, he joined Barings Bank, founded by his ancestor Sir Francis Baring, as a clerk. After military service during the war, he was man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl Of Cromer
Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer, (29 November 1877 – 13 May 1953), styled Viscount Errington between 1901 and 1917, was a British diplomat and courtier. Career Baring was a member of the Baring family and the son of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. He was appointed to the Diplomatic Service as a Third Secretary in July 1902. During the First World War he served as a subaltern in the Grenadier Guards. From 1922 to 1938 he was Lord Chamberlain of the Household. Family Lord Cromer married Lady Ruby Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, on 4 April 1908. They had three children: *Lady Rosemary Ethel Baring (1908–2004), married Lt.-Col. J.D. Hills and had issue. *Lady Violet Mary Baring (b. 17 December 1911), married Major Mervyn Vernon. * George Rowland Stanley Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (1918–1991) Media depictions In the 2005 film ''Mrs Henderson Presents'', Cromer is portrayed by actor Christop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah Baring
Norah Baring (26 November 1905 – 8 February 1985), born Nora Minnie Baker, was an English stage and film actress most famous on screen for portraying "Diana Baring" in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller ''Murder!'' (1930). She is also known for playing the female lead in Anthony Asquith's silent thriller '' A Cottage on Dartmoor'' (1929). Baring studied art prior to becoming an actress. Filmography * ''Underground'' (1928) * '' Parisiennes'' (1928) * '' The Celestial City'' (1929) * ''The Runaway Princess'' (1929) * '' A Cottage on Dartmoor'' (1929) * ''Murder!'' (1930) * '' Should a Doctor Tell?'' (1930) * '' Two Worlds'' (1930) * '' At the Villa Rose'' (1930) * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1931) * ''Strange Evidence'' (1933) * ''The House of Trent ''The House of Trent'' is a 1933 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Anne Grey, Wendy Barrie, Moore Marriott and Peter Gawthorne. It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Baring
Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. Life Baring was the eighth child, and fifth son, of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel, granddaughter of the second Earl Grey. Born in Mayfair, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After an abortive start of a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia, where he lived in 1905–06. He reported as an eye-witness of the Russo-Japanese War for the London ''Morning Post''. On returning to London he lived at North Cottage, 6 North Street, Westminster. At the start of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton
Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 17 August 1958), known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the Baring family. Background and education Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, and his first wife, Susan Renwick,Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835) cracroftspeerage.co.uk. daughter of . His parents divorced in 1984. He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020. |
John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton (2 November 1928 – 6 October 2020), was a British merchant banker who served as chairman of British Petroleum from 1992 to 1995. Lord Ashburton also sat on the boards of Jaguar Cars, Dunlop Rubber, and Royal Insurance. Family He was the oldest son of Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, and Doris Harcourt. His maternal grandparents were Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of Walter Hayes Burns of New York City, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate J. P. Morgan. Marriages and children First marriage On 25 November 1955, Baring married Susan Mary Renwick. She was a daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick, and his first wife Dorothy Mary Parkes. They had four children: * Lucinda Mary Louise "Lucy" Baring (born 20 October 1956). Married Michael John Wilmot Malet Vaughan, second son of John David Malet Vaughan, 8th Earl of Lisburne. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke
James Cecil Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke (16 August 1938 – 7 February 2012) was a British peer. Early life He was the second son of Rupert Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke, and the former Hon. Flora Fermor-Hesketh (a daughter of the 1st Baron Hesketh). His great-grandfather was financier Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke of Membland (1828–1897). His half-sisters, by a later marriage of his mother to Lt.-Cdr. Derek Lawson, are Arabella Ann Spurrier (née Lawson), born 14 August 1946, and Caroline Flora Turner (née Lawson), born 23 September 1953. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire. Career From 1957 until 1959, Baring served in the National Service in the RAF, thereafter moving to London, where he lived until 1970. He summered on Lambay Island, located in the Irish Sea. While in London, he bought the Regent Sound Studios located in London’s Tin Pan Alley and served as manager for the studio. At the studio, The Rolling Stones recorded their first a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
