Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook (8 December 1850 – 12 April 1929), styled Viscount Baring from 1876 to 1904, was a British politician.

Early life

Northbrook was the eldest and only surviving son of

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, (22 January 182615 November 1904) was a British Liberal statesman. Gladstone appointed him Viceroy of India 1872–1876. His major accomplishments came as an energetic reformer who was dedicated to ...

, and his wife Elizabeth Harriett Sturt, daughter of Henry Charles Sturt and sister of

Henry Sturt, 1st Baron Alington Henry Gerard Sturt, 1st Baron Alington (16 May 1825 – 17 February 1904), was a British peer, Conservative Party politician, and notorious slum landlord in the East End of London. Early life He was the son of Henry Sturt, a landowner and poli ...

. His sister, Lady Jane Emma Baring, was the second wife of Col. Hon. Sir Henry George Lewis Crichton, third son of

John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne, KP (30 July 1802 – 3 October 1885), was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Early life He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col. Hon. John Creighton, Governor of Hurst Castle and the former Jane Weldon (a daughter of Wa ...

. He was educated at

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and later served in the

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and in the

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Career

Between 1873 and 1876 he was '' aide-de-camp'' to his father, the

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. In 1880, he entered the

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for

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as a

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, a seat he held until 1885. He supported the

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arguing that racial disqualifications for judicial offices were "a grave political evil" that intensified racial antagonisms.Baring, Francis. "Indian Criminal Procedure Bill: Speech of the Earl of Northbrook in Colston Hall, Bristol on the 13th of November, 1883" (1883). London: The National Press Agency, Limited. pp. 14–15 He disagreed with

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over

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and later represented

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as a

Liberal Unionist The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain, the party established a political ...

from 1886 to 1892.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. In 1904, he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the

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Personal life

On 26 June 1894, Lord Northbrook married firstly Ada Ethel Sophie, daughter of Col. Cuthbert Davidson CB, and former wife of Ian Robert James Murray Grant of Glenmoriston. She died suddenly only a month after their marriage. He married secondly Florence Anita, daughter of Eyre Coote and widow of

Sir Robert John Abercromby, 7th Baronet Robert John Abercromby (14 June 1850 – 24 July 1895) was the seventh Scottish Abercromby baronet. He held the estates of Birkenbog and Forglen, as well as land in Ireland. He served as Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Banffshire, and Justice of the Pea ...

, in 1899. There were no children from either marriage. Lord Northbrook died in April 1929, aged 78, when the viscountcy of Baring and earldom became extinct. He was succeeded in his junior title of Baron Northbrook and in the Baring Baronetcy by his half-first cousin, Francis Arthur Baring. The Countess of Northbrook, who was appointed a

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, died in December 1946, aged 85.

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Liberal Unionist Party peers