Mark Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton
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| Born | Mark Francis Robert Baring 7 August 1958 |
| Predecessor | John Baring |
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Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 17 August 1958), known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the Baring family.
Background and education
[edit]Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton,[1] and his first wife, Susan Renwick,[2] daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick. His parents divorced in 1984. He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020.[3][better source needed]
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate J. P. Morgan, were his great-grandparents through his paternal grandmother, Doris, Baroness Ashburton (née Harcourt).
Marriage and children
[edit]Baring married Miranda Caroline Wright (born 1961) on 29 October 1983.[2] They have four children:[4]
- Aurea Rose Baring (born 1988)
- Frederick Charles Francis Baring (born 1990, heir apparent)
- Patrick Robin John Baring (born 1995)
- Flora Baring (born 1997)
References
[edit]- ^ Baring, John Francis Harcourt, Webb-site Who's Who.
- ^ a b Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835), cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
- ^ "Ashburton". Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Baring, Mark Francis Robert, Webb-site Who's Who.
