Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (13 April 1828 – 17 July 1897), was a British banker.

Early life

A member of the Baring banking family, "Ned" Baring was born on 13 April 1828. He was the second son of

Henry Baring Henry Baring (18 January 1777 – 13 April 1848) was a British banker and politician. He was the third son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, the founder of the family banking firm that grew into Barings Bank. His grandfather Johann Baring em ...

from his second marriage, to Cecilia Anne (née Windham). His younger brother was Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. His father, a

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for Bossiney and

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, was divorced from Maria Matilda Bingham, a daughter of U.S. Senator William Bingham, the former wife of French aristocrat James Alexander, Comte de Tilly. From his father's first marriage, his elder half-brother was Henry Bingham Baring, an MP Callington who married Lady Augusta Brudenell, a daughter of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan.

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was his grandfather and among his extended family were uncles were Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet and

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(who married Ann, another Bingham daughter). He was educated at

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Career

Baring in 1882 became senior partner in the family banking firm of Baring Brothers and Co until forced to step down following the Panic of 1890. Edward's younger brother Thomas also became a partner in the bank. He was also a Director of the Bank of England (1879–1891), chairman of Lloyds (1887–1892) and a Lieutenant of the

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. On 30 June 1885 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Revelstoke, ''of Membland in the County of Devon''. The town of Revelstoke in

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, Canada was renamed in his honour, commemorating his role in securing the financing necessary for completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Personal life

On 30 April 1861, Lord Revelstoke married Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel, daughter of

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, MP, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey (herself the daughter of

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). They had seven sons and three daughters, including: * John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke (1863–1929), who died unmarried. *

Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke (12 April 1864 – 26 January 1934) was an English banker and aristocrat. Early life Baring was born on 12 April 1864. He was the third, but second surviving, of seven sons and three daughters born to Edward Ba ...

(1864–1934), who married the divorced American heiress Maude (née

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) Tailer, daughter of

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."Mrs. M. L. Tailer's Wedding; Will Be, or Has Become, the Bride of the Hon. Cecil Baring, in London, It Is Said."
'The New York Times'' 10 April 1902. p. 9 * Hon.

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(1865–1932), a Brig.-Gen. who served as Military Secretary to the

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from 1899 to 1905. He married Lady Ulrica Duncombe, fourth daughter of

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in 1904. * Hon. Elizabeth Baring (1867–1944), who married Valentine Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare, in 1887. * Hon. Margaret Baring (1868–1906), who married Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, in 1887. * Hon. Susan Baring (1870-1961), a

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1898-99 who married Sir James Reid of Ellon, 1st Baronet,

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to Queen Victoria, King

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and King

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, in 1899. * Hon.

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 Wo ...

(1874–1945), the man of letters who died unmarried. * Hon. Hugo Baring (1876–1949), who married Lady Evelyn Harriet Hogg, widow of James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baron Magheramorne and second daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury, in 1905. Lady Revelstoke died in 1892. Lord Revelstoke survived her by five years and died in July 1897, aged 69. He was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son

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In popular culture

* Appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel ''

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'', by

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. *Appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel '' The Last Days of Night'', by Graham Moore. * Appears in the Nightmare Song, from Gilbert & Sullivan's '' Iolanthe'', when the Lord Chancellor sings that "The shares are a penny and ever so many are taken by Rothschild and Baring"

Ancestry

Arms

References

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Risks and Rewards
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