Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook

The Right Honourable The Lord Northbrook FRS PC


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
Political party	Whig
Spouse(s)	Jane Grey (m. 1825–38) Lady Arabella Howard (m. 1841–66)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook PC (20 April 1796 – 6 September 1866), known as Sir Francis Baring, Bt, from 1848 to 1866, was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.

Background

A member of the famous Baring banking family, he was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary Ursula, 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] He was then a Secretary to the Treasury until November of the same year, 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Family

Lord Northbrook married twice.

Firstly, on 7 April 1825 at the Dockyard Chapel, Portsmouth, Lord Northbrook married Jane Grey (20 October 1804 - 23 April 1838), daughter of the Hon. Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, and niece of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, with issue.

Secondly, in 1841 at St George's, Hanover Square, he married Lady Arabella Georgina Howard (25 January 1809 - 10 December 1884), second daughter of Kenneth Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, with issue.

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.

Honours

Baring Bay on western Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic is named in his honour.^[4]

References

1 2 3 4 Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 104.
↑ 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.
↑ Taylor, Isaac (1898). Names and their histories: a handbook of historical geography and topographical nomenclature (2 ed.). Rivingtons. p. 61.

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

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Francis Baring
"Archival material relating to Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook". UK National Archives.

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	3rd Baronet (Baring of Larkbeare, Devon) 1848–1866	Succeeded by Thomas Baring

Chancellors of the Exchequer
of England	Eustace of Fauconberg Maunsell Leicester Westminster Chishull W. Giffard G. Giffard Chishull de la Leye Willoughby Benstead Sandale Hotham Stanton Harvington Wodehouse Stratford Ashby Ashton Barnham Somer Somerset Browne Witham Thwaites Witham Fowler Catesby Lovell Berners Cromwell Baker Sackville Mildmay Fortescue Dunbar Caesar Greville Portland Barrett Cottington Colepeper Hyde Ashley Duncombe Ernle Delamer Hampden Montagu Smith Boyle
of Great Britain	Boyle Smith Harley Benson Wyndham Onslow Walpole Stanhope Aislabie Pratt Walpole Sandys Pelham Lee Bilson-Legge Lyttelton Bilson-Legge Mansfield Bilson-Legge Barrington Dashwood Grenville Dowdeswell Townshend North Cavendish Pitt Cavendish Pitt Addington Pitt Ellenborough Petty Perceval Vansittart
of the United Kingdom	Vansittart Robinson Canning Tenterden Herries Goulburn Althorp Denman Peel Spring Rice Baring Goulburn Wood Disraeli Gladstone Lewis Disraeli Gladstone Disraeli Hunt Lowe Gladstone Northcote Gladstone Childers Hicks Beach Harcourt R. Churchill Goschen Harcourt Hicks Beach Ritchie A. Chamberlain Asquith Lloyd George McKenna Law A. Chamberlain Horne Baldwin N. Chamberlain Snowden W. Churchill Snowden N. Chamberlain Simon Wood Anderson Dalton Cripps Gaitskell Butler Macmillan Thorneycroft Heathcoat-Amory Lloyd Maudling Callaghan Jenkins Macleod Barber Healey Howe Lawson Major Lamont Clarke Brown Darling Osborne Hammond
Italic: Interim Chancellor of the Exchequer, as Lord Chief Justice

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