Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Baring, Francis Thornhill
BARING, Sir FRANCIS THORNHILL, Lord Northbrook (1796–1886), statesman, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Baring, the second baronet, and was born at Calcutta 20 April 1796. He was educated at Winchester School and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining the distinction of a double first class in 1817. In the parliament of 1866 the constituency of Portsmouth chose him as its member, and he represented it without interruption until 1885. He climbed from step to step of the official ladder, and was a lord of the treasury Nov. 1830 to June 1834, its joint secretary June 1830 to June 1834 and April 1835 to Sept. 1839, and chancellor of the exchequer Aug. 1839 to Sept. 1841. From 1840 to 1852 he was the first lord of the admiralty. He was created Baron Northbrook 4 jan. 1866, and died as Stratton Park Sept. 1886. Lord Northbrook was twice married: first 7 April 1825, at Portsmouth,to Jane, youngest daughter of he Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B., by whom he was father of Thomas George, created Earl Northbrook in 1876; and secondly, 31 March 1841, at St. George's, Hanover Square, to lady Arabella Georgiana Howard, second daughter of the first Earl of Eflingham. His first wife died at Belgrave Square, Pimlico, 23 April 1838; his second wife is still living. The speech which he made, 17 May 1841, on the budget resolutions for the year, was printed as a pamphlet; his proposals were keenly critcised by Sir Robert Peel. Several improvements were effected at the admiralty during his presidency of the board.
[Burke's Peerage; Men of the Time; Times, 8 Sept 1866.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.15
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