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 Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1828–1897) and the former Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. His elder brother was John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke. His father was senior partner in the family banking firm of Baring Brothers and Co. His sister, Margaret, was the wife of

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. His father was the second son of

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(son of

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) by his second wife, Cecilia Anne (

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Windham), and brother of

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. His maternal grandparents were John Crocker Bulteel, MP, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey (herself the daughter of

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). Baring attended Eton and

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, graduating in 1887.

Career

Soon after leaving Oxford, he went to New York City where he joined Kidder, Peabody & Co. of which his uncle, Thomas Baring, was a partner. He retired from business in 1901 and devoted himself to agricultural and natural history pursuits, particularly at

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, north of

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, which he acquired in 1904. He employed

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to restore the castle there. In 1927, he donated an

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vessel to the

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. In 1911, he returned to London and was elected a director of the family firm, Baring Brothers and Co., later becoming head of the firm. In 1929, he succeeded his unmarried elder brother

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in the barony.

Personal life

Baring was reportedly engaged to Grace Wilson, who later married

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(which caused his father,

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, to disinherit him). On 8 November 1902, Baring was married to Maude Louise (née Lorillard) Tailer of New York, the youngest daughter of the tobacco millionaire,

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. She was previously divorced from Thomas Suffern Tailer (a son of Edward Neufville Tailer), one of Cecil's business partners. Together, they were the parents of: * Hon. Daphne Baring (1904–1986), who married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of

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and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920. They were the parents of Patrick Pollen. * Hon. Calypso Baring (1905–1974), who married Guy Maynard Liddell, third son of Capt. Augustus Frederick Liddell, Comptroller and Treasurer to

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(husband of

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) in 1926. They divorced in 1943. * Rupert Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke (1911–1994), who married Hon. Florence Flora Fermor-Hesketh, second daughter of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh and the former Florence Louisa Breckinridge (a daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge of

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). They divorced in 1944 and she married Lt.-Cmdr. Derek Lawson of Passenham Manor. Lady Revelstoke died on 2 April 1922. Lord Revelstoke died in

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on 26 January 1934.

References

External links

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at the

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