Charles Evelyn Baring, 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 30 December 1937), is a

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and a member of the

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 Bari ...

. He is the son of

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973), was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. Baring play ...

, and is well known as an arboriculturalist and plant collector. He is the creator of the ''Howick Arboretum'' at

Howick Hall Howick Hall, a Grade II* listed building in the village of Howick, Northumberland, England, is the ancestral seat of the Earls Grey. It was the home of the Prime Minister Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), after whom Earl Grey tea is ...

, one of the largest collections of wild origin plants in the United Kingdom. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

and

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

. He served as a director of

Barings Bank Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London. It was one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member ...

(1969–1982) and on the executive committee of the

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. He was a director of

Northern Rock Northern Rock, formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, was a British bank. Based at Regent Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Northern Rock was originally a building society. It demutualised and became Northern Rock bank in ...

plc (1987–2001). Baring is married to the former Clare Nicolette Darby, daughter of Col. Cyril Darby of Kemerton Court. They have four married children, and fourteen grandchildren.Howick Hall Gardens website
Retrieved 7 June 2022. His mother Lady Mary Cecil Grey (1907–2002) died aged 94. He inherited

on the death of his grandfather

Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey Charles Robert Grey, 5th Earl Grey DL (15 December 1879 – 2 April 1963), styled Viscount Howick between 1894 and 1917, was a British nobleman, the son of Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey. Grey was born in London in 1879 and was the son of th ...

, who broke the

entail In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise ali ...

to avoid passing on the ownership of the estate to his distant cousin the 6th Earl and his heirs.

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Howick Hall Gardens website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Howick Of Glendale, Charles Baring, 2nd Baron Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom 1937 births Living people People educated at Eton College Alumni of New College, Oxford English gardeners English horticulturists People from Northumberland

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Howick of Glendale