Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 17 August 1958), known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the

Baring family The Baring family is a German and British family of merchants and bankers. In Germany, the family belongs to the '' Bildungsbürgertum'', and in England, it belongs to the aristocracy. History The family's earliest known ancestor is Peter Bari ...

Background and education

Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, and his first wife, Susan Renwick,Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835)
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Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick Robert Burnham Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick, KBE (4 October 1904 – 30 August 1973), known as Sir Robert Renwick, 2nd Baronet, from 1932 to 1964, was a British industrialist and public servant. Renwick was the only son of Sir Harry Renwick, 1st ...

. His parents divorced in 1984. He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020.

Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (born Reginald Vernon Harcourt; 31 January 1863 – 24 February 1922), was a British Liberal Party politician who held the Cabinet post of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915. Lor ...

, and Mary Ethel Burns, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate

J. P. Morgan John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ...

, were his great-grandparents through his paternal grandmother, Doris, Baroness Ashburton (née Harcourt).

Marriage and children

Baring married Miranda Caroline Wright (born 1961) on 29 October 1983. They have four children:Baring, Mark Francis Robert
Webb-site Who's Who. * Hon. Aurea Rose Baring (born 1988) * Hon. Frederick Charles Francis Baring (born 1990,

heir apparent An heir apparent is a person who is first in the order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person. A person who is first in the current order of succession but could be displaced by the birth of a more e ...

) * Hon. Patrick Robin John Baring (born 1995) * Hon. Flora Baring (born 1997)

References

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Mark Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English people of American descent 8 Living people