Thomas Charles Baring DL (16 May 1831 – 2 April 1891) was a British banker and Conservative Party politician.

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Baring, informally called "T. C." or "Charley" to distinguish him from the other Thomases in the

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, was the son of the Right Reverend Charles Baring,

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, younger son of

Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (12 June 1772 – 3 April 1848), was a British banker and Member of Parliament. Early life Baring was born on 12 June 1772. A member of the Baring family, he was the eldest son of Harriet (née Herring) Baring ...

. His mother was Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealy. He was educated at Harrow and

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, 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

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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

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from 1887 to 1891. Baring also served as a Justice of the Peace for

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and

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, was a member of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea from 1885 to 1887, and the author of among other works ''Pindar in English Rhyme'' and ''The Scheme of Epicurus: A Rendering into English Verse of the Unfinished Poem of Lucretius Entitled, De Rerum Natura''. With Barings facing bankruptcy following the Panic of 1890, he returned to business life to help reorganize the partnership as a

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, and served as one of its Managing Directors until his death. Baring married Susan, daughter of Robert Bowne Minturn, of

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, in 1859. They had four sons and three daughters (of whom two sons never reached adulthood). He died in April 1891, aged 59. His wife survived him by six years and died in January 1897.

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''The New York Times'' obituary 3 April 1891
* Ziegler, Philip. ''The Sixth Great Power: A History of One of the Greatest of All Banking Families, the House of Barings, 1762-1929.'' Illustrated. 430 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baring, Thomas 1831 births 1891 deaths Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford

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British bankers Deputy lieutenants of Essex English translators Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the City of London Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies People educated at Harrow School UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1886–1892 19th-century British translators 19th-century British businesspeople People associated with Hertford College, Oxford

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