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Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook

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British politician (1796–1866)

The Right Honourable The Lord Northbrook PC FRS


Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 26 August 1839 – 30 August 1841
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	Thomas Spring Rice
Succeeded by	Henry Goulburn
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 1849 – 28 February 1852
Preceded by	The Earl of Auckland
Succeeded by	The Duke of Northumberland
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 6 June 1834 – 14 November 1834
Preceded by	Thomas Spring Rice
Succeeded by	Vacant
In office 21 April 1835 – 26 August 1839
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Fremantle
Succeeded by	Robert Gordon

Personal details
Born	(1796-04-20)20 April 1796 Calcutta,India
Died	6 September 1866(1866-09-06) (aged 70) Micheldever,Hampshire
Nationality	British
Party	Liberal Whig (before 1859)
Spouses	Jane Grey (m. 1825; died 1838) Lady Arabella Howard (m. 1841)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook,PC, FRS (20 April 1796 – 6 September 1866), known asSir Francis Baring, 3rd Baronet, from 1848 to 1866, was a BritishWhig politician who served in the governments ofLord Melbourne andLord John Russell.

Early life

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A member of the famousBaring banking family, he was the eldest son ofSir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary Ursula Sealy, eldest daughter of Charles Sealy.

Baring was educated atWinchester College and thenEton College. He obtained a double first-class degree fromChrist Church, Oxford, in 1817, and graduated with aMaster of Arts four years later.^[1] In 1818, he was commissioned as aCaptain in the disembodiedNorth Hampshire Militia, but resigned in 1825.^[2] In 1823, he wascalled to the Bar atLincoln's Inn and in 1848, he succeeded his father as baronet.^[1]

Political career

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Baring entered theBritish House of Commons in 1826, sitting as aMember of Parliament forPortsmouth until his retirement in 1865. A year later, he was raised to thePeerage of the United Kingdom asBaron Northbrook. Baring was appointedLord of the Treasury in 1830, a post he held for the next four years, until June 1834.^[1] In 1831, Baring was appointed to serve on theGovernment Commission upon Emigration, which was wound up in 1832.^[3]

He was aSecretary to the Treasury until November 1834, and he reassumed this office between 1835 and 1839.^[1] Subsequently, Baring was sworn into thePrivy Council and joined the cabinet asChancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841. He returned to the cabinet in January 1849, replacingLord Auckland asFirst Lord of the Admiralty in Russell's cabinet, until its fall in 1852.^[4]

Baring was a member of theCanterbury Association. He metJohn Robert Godley on 24 November 1849 to discuss educational matters for the proposed settlement inCanterbury, New Zealand, and provided £600 for education as a memorial toCharles Buller, who had died the previous year.^[5]

Personal life

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Lord Northbrook was twice married. Firstly, on 7 April 1825, at the Dockyard Chapel, in Portsmouth, Lord Northbrook married Jane Grey (1804–1838), daughter ofSir George Grey, 1st Baronet, and niece ofCharles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. They were the parents of:

Hon. Mary Baring (d. 1906), who marriedJohn Bonham-Carter, son ofJohn Bonham-Carter.
Thomas George Baring (1826–1904), who married Elizabeth Sturt, daughter ofHenry Sturt and sister ofLord Alington.

Secondly, in 1841, he married Lady Arabella Georgina Howard (1809–1884) atSt George's, Hanover Square. Lady Arabella was the second daughter ofKenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham. They were the parents of:

Hon. Francis Henry Baring (1850–1915), who married Lady Grace Boyle, daughter ofRichard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork.

Lord Northbrook died on 6 September 1866, aged 70, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage,Thomas, who was later createdEarl of Northbrook in 1876. Lady Northbrook died in December 1884, at the aged of 75.^[6]

Honours

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Baring Bay on westernDevon Island in the Canadian Arctic is named in his honour.^[7]

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^dDod, Robert P. (1860).The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 104.
^Lloyd-Verney, George Hope; Hunt, J. Mouat F. (1894).Records of the Infantry Militia Battalions of the County of Southampton from A.D. 1757 to 1894. Longmans, Green. p. 5. Republished by Legare Street Press, 2023,ISBN 978-1-02-178473-5
^"Emigration from the United Kingdom"(PDF).Journal of the Statistical Society of London.1 (3):156–157. July 1838.doi:10.2307/2337910.JSTOR 2337910.
^Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Sir Francis Baring
^Blain, Rev. Michael (2007).The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections(PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 13–14. Retrieved3 April 2013.
^"Baring, Francis Thornhill" .Dictionary of National Biography. London:Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^Taylor, Isaac (1898).Names and their histories: a handbook of historical geography and topographical nomenclature (2 ed.). Rivingtons. p. 61.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

John Markham
John Bonham-Carter

Member of Parliament forPortsmouth
1826–1865
With:John Bonham-Carter 1826–1838
Sir George Staunton, Bt 1838–1852
The Viscount Monck 1852–1857
Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone 1857–1865

Succeeded by

William Henry Stone
Stephen Gaselee

Political offices

Preceded by

Thomas Spring Rice

Chancellor of the Exchequer
1839–1841

Succeeded by

Henry Goulburn

Preceded by

The Earl of Auckland

First Lord of the Admiralty
1849–1852

Succeeded by

The Duke of Northumberland

Peerage of the United Kingdom

New creation

Baron Northbrook
1866

Succeeded by

Thomas Baring

Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

Thomas Baring

Baronet
(Baring of Larkbeare, Devon)
1848–1866

Succeeded by

Thomas Baring

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