Thomas "Tom" Baring

Thomas Baring (21 March 1839 – 4 June 1923) was a British banker.

Early life Baring was born on 21 March 1839 at Cromer Hall, Cromer, Norfolk into the Baring family. Known as "Tom", he was the tenth child (fifth of second marriage) of Henry Baring and the former Cecilia Anne Windham. His father was first married, and divorced, to Maria Matilda Bingham (a daughter of U.S. Senator William Bingham who was the former wife of ). Among his siblings were elder half-brother Henry Bingham Baring, MP for Callington and Marlborough, and younger brothers, Edward, raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Revelstoke, and Evelyn, who inherited Cromer Hall and was raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of Cromer.

Personal life In 1901, Baring was married to heiress Constance Barron, daughter of William Barron and Fanny Louisa Lonergan. Her sister, Agnes Barron, had married Baron Alexandre de Stoeckl in 1892, and became lady in waiting to Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. Together, they were the parents of:

Richard Baring (1902–1940), who married Violetta Archer, a niece of Lord George Dundas, in 1922. After her death in a flying accident in 1931, he married Margaret Sutton, daughter of Dr. Henry Thomas Sutton, in 1932. She was aunt to Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie. They divorced in 1949 and he married Pauline Alison ( Copland) Boden, daughter of Frank Fawcett Copland and former wife of Timothy Boden, in 1950.

Baring died at Newmarket, Suffolk on 4 June 1923. His widow died on 3 July 1948.