William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton was born in June 1799.*

Bingham, as he was known, was the son of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton and Anne Louise Bingham.He married, firstly, Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, daughter of George John Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich and Lady Louisa Mary Ann Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry, on 12 April 1823 at Dover Street, St. George Hanover Square, London, England.He married, secondly, Louisa Caroline Mackenzie, daughter of Rt. Hon. James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie and Hon. Mary Frederica Elizabeth Mackenzie, on 17 November 1858 at Bath House, Piccadilly, London, England. He died on 23 March 1864 at age 64 at The Grange, Hertfordshire, England, without surviving male issue. His will was proven (by probate) on 1 June 1864, at under £180,000.

He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1821 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), 2nd class in classics. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Thetford between 1826 and 1830. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Callington between 1830 and 1831. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Winchester between 1832 and 1837. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for North Staffordshire from 1837 to 1841. He held the office of Secretary to the Board of Control between 1841 and 1845. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Thetford between 1841 and 1848. He held the office of Paymaster-General of the Forces between 1845 and 1846. He held the office of Treasurer of the Navy between 1845 and 1846. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 30 June 1845. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Ashburton [U.K., 1835] on 12 May 1848. He was decorated with the award of the Commander, Legion of Honour. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.) on 29 April 1854. He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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* alternate birth date June 9, 1799

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Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (William Bingham Baring; June 1799 – 23 March 1864) was a British businessman and a Whig politician who later became a Tory.

Baring was the eldest son of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton and his wife Anne Louisa, daughter of William Bingham. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in classics in 1821. He received a Master of Arts in 1836 and a Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in 1856.

Baring sat as Member of Parliament for Thetford between 1826 and 1830 and 1841 and 1848,for Callington between 1830 and 1831,for Winchester between 1832 and 1837 and for Staffordshire North between 1837 and 1841.He was elected as a Whig in 1832 and 1835, and from 1837 as a Tory.He served under Sir Robert Peel as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control from 1841 to 1845 and as Paymaster-General, In 1845 he was sworn of the Privy Council.In 1848 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords.

Baring was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 May 1848.He was a commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, awarded for his services to commerce. He served as captain in the Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry.In 1853, he was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Southampton.In 1854 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[14][10] One of his on-going legacies is the National Rifle Association's competition for the Ashburton Shield which was donated by Lord Ashburton in 1861.

Lord Ashburton married as his first wife, Lady Harriet Mary Montagu,eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, on 12 April 1823.[Their only child, Alexander Montagu Baring (1828–1830), died as an infant.] Lady Harriet is well known for inspiring the devotion of her husband's close friend Thomas Carlyle, to the great dismay of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle.Lady Harriet died on 4 May 1857, aged 51.

Lord Ashburton married as his second wife Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, youngest daughter of James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie, on 17 November 1858. They had one daughter, the Hon. Mary Florence "Masie", born on 26 June 1860 at Bath House, Piccadilly, London. Masie who married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton.

Lord Ashburton died at The Grange, Hertfordshire, in March 1864, aged 64.

He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, Francis. Lady Ashburton subsequently had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer.She died in London in February 1903, aged 75.

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BARING, William Bingham (1799-1864), of Buckenham House, Brandon, Norf. and 12 Great Stanhope Street, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. June 1799, 1st. s. of Alexander Baring* and Ann Louisa, da. and coh. of William Bingham of Blackpoint, Philadelphia, Senator USA; bro. of Francis Baring*. educ. Geneva; Oriel, Oxf. 1817; m. (1) 12 Apr. 1823, Lady Harriet Mary Montagu (d. 4 May 1857), da. of George John Montagu†, 6th earl of Sandwich, 1s. d.v.p.1; (2) 17 Nov. 1858, Louisa Caroline, da. of James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie*, 1da. suc. fa. as 2nd Bar. Ashburton 12 May 1848. d. 23 Mar. 1864.

Offices Held

Sec. to bd. of control Sept. 1841-Feb. 1845; paymaster-gen. Feb. 1845-July 1846; PC 30 June 1845.

Cornet Dogmersfield yeoman cav. 1821; capt. N. Hants yeoman cav. 1830.

Biography

The family bank was considered no place for Alexander Baring's heir Bingham, and after leaving Geneva and Oxford, where in 1821 he gained a second in classics, he was brought, by means of a yeomanry commission, into the county life of Hampshire, where his arriviste father, Member for Taunton, and Baring uncles Henry, Member for Colchester, and Sir Thomas, Member for Chipping Wycombe, had substantial estates.Touring the continent early in 1822 he caused a stir by becoming engaged to Lady Harriet Montagu, daughter of the late 6th earl of Sandwich, who was dismissed by John Stuart Wortley and his Oxford friends as 'a little fright of 16'.Alexander Baring settled £5,000 a year on them directly, with £25,000 a year under settlement and a £3,000 a year jointure for Lady Harriet.'Tall and commanding in person, but without any pretensions to good looks', she snubbed her American mother-in-law as her social inferior but became the premier hostess of the age, recalled by Greville as 'more of a precieuse than any woman I have known'. Baring paid £1,400 for the home secretary Peel's house in Great Stanhope Street in February 1825, and settled briefly at Buckenham House near Thetford, part of the Petre estate purchased by his father in 1822 with a view to bringing in a Member. He was returned there at the general election of 1826.

Like his relations, he generally sided with the Whigs. Some doubts persist concerning the votes, speeches and committee involvement of the various Barings. This Member, who is known to have kept notes, partly in shorthand, for speeches in February 1827, February 1828 and June 1831, was the only Baring to vote against the Clarences' grant, 16 Feb., and for inquiry into the mutiny at Barackpoor, 22 Mar. 1827....He may have presented anti-slavery petitions from Bamborough, 18 Nov. At The Grange the following night, he narrowly escaped death at the hands of the 'Swing' rioters whom he confronted in his capacity as a Hampshire magistrate. According to Lord Ellenborough, who had the report from Baring's father, he 'was not much hurt' as 'his brother [Frederick] the clergyman' raised the whole village to disperse the mob. He expanded his militia troop and was named to the special commission appointed to examine the prisoners, among them his assailant Henry Cooke, who was convicted at Winchester and hanged.15 He and Francis defied their father by voting with their uncles and cousin for the second reading of the ministry's reform bill, 22 Mar.16 He went to Paris afterwards with his wife, but was back in time to vote against Gascoyne's wrecking amendment, 19 Apr. 1831....ut of Parliament, he was far from forgotten. Targetting his father, the radicals and The Times exploited his involvement in the detention of Thomas and Caroline Deacle of Owslebury, who, being acquitted of inciting the 'Swing' rioters, accused their arresters of assault, for which Bingham Baring was convicted at Winchester assizes, 13 July 1831, and directed to pay £50 costs....Publicly the Barings, who were of the minority, supported inquiry to clear Bingham Baring's name, leaving him to seek legal redress and to protest in correspondence to The Times. Nothing came of an attempt to revive the issue by means of a petition from the operative workmen of Oldham, 23 Feb. 1832

Baring contested Winchester successfully as a Liberal at the general elections of 1832 and 1835. He then defected to the Conservatives in 1835, and after failing at Stafford came in for Staffordshire North in 1837 and Thetford in 1841. He served at the board of control and as paymaster-general in Peel's second ministry.22 He succeeded his father in the Ashburton peerage and estates and in 1857 married, as his second wife, Caroline Stewart Mackenzie, 28 years his junior, with whom he had a daughter, born in June 1860. He left almost everything to them when he died in March 1864, and was succeeded by his brother Francis as 3rd Baron.

-Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009

Biographical materials contributed by by Starfishin [#48860385]

William Bingham Barring was the grandson of William Bingham (March 8, 1752 – February 7, 1804)an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. William Bingham was one of the wealthiest men in the United States during his lifetime, and was considered to be the richest person in the U.S. in 1780.

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