John Baring, 5th Baron Revelstoke (2 December 1934 – 5 June 2003) was a British landowner and aristocrat who spent much of his life in Kenya.

Early life

Baring was born on 2 December 1934. He was the elder son of

Rupert Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke Rupert Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke (8 February 1911 – 18 July 1994) was a British landowner and peer. Early life Baring was born in London on 8 February 1911. He was the only son of Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke and Maude Louise ...

, and his wife, the former Hon. Flora Fermor-Hesketh. His younger brother was the Hon. James Cecil Baring. His parents divorced and his mother remarried to Lt.-Cmdr. Derek Lawson of Passenham Manor. From his mother's later marriage, he had two younger half-sisters, Arabella Ann Spurrier (née Lawson), born 14 August 1946, and Caroline Flora Turner (née Lawson), born 23 September 1953. His paternal grandparents were

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 ...

and Maude Louise (

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) Tailer (youngest daughter of New Yorkers

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and Emily (née Taylor) Lorillard). His maternal grandparents were

Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (17 November 1881 – 20 July 1944), known as Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, Bt, from 1924 to 1935, was a British peer, soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament. Early life Hesketh was the son of Sir Th ...

and the former Florence Louisa Breckinridge (a daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge of

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and granddaughter of

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, former

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). He was educated at

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Career

Baring spent much of his life in

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, where he was a farmer, but also spent some time at

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following his father's death. He succeeded his father as the 5th

Baron Revelstoke Baron Revelstoke, of Membland in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 June 1885 for the businessman Edward Baring, head of the family firm of Barings Bank and a member of the Baring family ...

on 18 July 1994.

Personal life

In 1979, Baring was married to Bridget Adrienne Rose (d. 1980), a daughter of Joseph Patrick Ring of

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. His wife died in 1980 before he succeeded to the barony. Lord Revelstoke died, without issue, in Kenya, 5 June 2003, and was cremated at

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. Upon his death, he was succeeded by his younger brother,

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References

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