Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook

The Right Honourable
The Lord Northbrook
Bt PC FRS
The Right Honourable The Lord Northbrook Bt 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	20 April 1796; Calcutta, India
Died	6 September 1866 (aged 70); Micheldever, Hampshire
Nationality	British
Political 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 as Sir Francis Baring, 3rd Baronet, from 1848 to 1866, was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.

Early life

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

Baring was educated at Winchester College and then Eton College. He obtained a double first class from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1817, and graduated with a Master of Arts four years later.^[1] In 1823, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and in 1848, he succeeded his father as baronet.^[1]

Political career

Baring entered the British House of Commons in 1826, sitting as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth until his retirement in 1865. A year later, he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Northbrook. Baring was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1830, a post he held for the next four years until June 1834.^[1] In 1831, Baring was appointed to also serve on the Government Commission upon Emigration, which was wound up in 1832.^[2]

He was a Secretary to the Treasury until November 1834, executing this office again between 1835 and 1839.^[1] Subsequently, Baring was sworn of the Privy Council and joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841. He returned to the cabinet in January 1849, replacing Lord Auckland as First Lord of the Admiralty in Russell's cabinet, until its fall in 1852.^[3]

Baring was a member of the Canterbury Association. He met John Robert Godley on 24 November 1849 to discuss educational matters for the proposed settlement in Canterbury, New Zealand, and gave £600 for education as a memorial to Charles Buller, who had died in the previous year.^[4]

Personal life

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

Hon. Mary Baring (d. 1906), who married John Bonham-Carter, son of John Bonham-Carter.
Thomas George Baring (1826–1904), who married Elizabeth Sturt, daughter of Henry Sturt and sister of Lord Alington.

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

Hon. Francis Henry Baring (1850–1915), who married Lady Grace Boyle, daughter of Richard 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 later was created Earl of Northbrook in 1876. Lady Northbrook died in December 1884, aged 75.^[5]

Honours

Baring Bay on western Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic is named in his honour.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 104.
^ "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 – via JSTOR.
^ 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. Retrieved 3 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 for Portsmouth 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

[Dod-1] Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 104.

[stats1838-2] "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 – via JSTOR.

[3] Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Francis Baring

[4] Blain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 13–14. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

[5] "Baring, Francis Thornhill" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[6] Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and their histories: a handbook of historical geography and topographical nomenclature (2 ed.). Rivingtons. p. 61.

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