Sunday, 29 September 2013
276 Henry Baring
Constituency : Callington 1831-2, Marlborough 1832-46 ( Conservative) 1846-68
Henry was the brother of the Earl of Cromer and a member of the distinguished banking family. He went to Oxford . He served as a major in the Life Guards between 1824 and 1834; in 1831 he was chastised by William IV after a stone was thrown at the royal coach. .He started out as a Tory and was first "elected" for the rotten borough of Callington in 1831 after defeat at Canterbury the previous year. When that was abolished by the Great Reform Act he switched to Marlborough , a seat controlled by his wife's relative Lord Ailesbury, which he held until it was reduced to a single member in 1868 despite a change of allegiance in 1846 when he followed Peel . He was a whip during Peel's government of 1841-6 where he was described as "diligent and decisive " but "rough in manner". After 1850 he usually followed Gladstone or Cardwell's lead.
Henry resided mainly in France in later life.
He died at Nice in 1869 aged 65
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