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BARING , the name of a See also: family of See also:English financiers and bankers. The See also:firm of Baring See also:Brothers was founded by See also:FRANCIS BARING (1740-1810), whose See also:father, See also:John Baring, son of a Lutheran See also:minister at See also:Bremen, had come to See also:England from See also:Germany, and started a See also:cloth manufactory at Larkbear, near See also:Exeter. Francis Baring was See also:born at Larkbear, and in due course was placed in a See also:London commercial firm. In 1770, in See also:conjunction with his See also:brother John, Francis Baring established a banking-See also:house in London, and before he died in 18ro had so See also:developed the business that he was regarded as the first See also:merchant in See also:Europe. He was for many years a director of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and See also:chair-See also:man in 1792-1793, receiving a baronetcy for his services. From 1784-1806 he sat almost continuously in See also:parliament as a Whig. He See also:left five sons, of whom the eldest, See also:SIR See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS BARING (1772-1848), was a well-known See also:art-See also:patron and See also:collector. The See also:control of the business passed to his second son, See also:ALEXANDER (1774-1848), better known as See also:LORD See also:ASHBURTON, who had already been highly successful in extending the firm's operations in See also:America, where his See also:marriage with the daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Bingham, a wealthy See also:resident of See also:Philadelphia and See also:United States senator, secured him considerable See also:influence with the See also:American commercial community. From 1806-1835 he represented various constituencies in parliament where he strongly opposed reform. In 1834 he became See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Trade and See also:master of the See also:mint in Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel's first See also:administration, and the following See also:year was raised to the See also:peerage as See also:Baron Ashburton. His business capacity and intimate acquaintance with American customs and institutions caused his See also:appointment in 1842 as See also:commissioner to the United States to negotiate the See also:settlement of the See also:north-eastern boundary question and other matters in dispute between the two countries, and he concluded in that year at Washi,ngton the treaty, commonly known as the Ashburton treaty, by which the frontier between See also:Maine and See also:Canada was fixed. After his See also:death in 1848 the affairs of the house were managed by THOMAS BARING (1799-1893), the son of Sir Thomas Baring. Thomas Baring represented See also: Huntingdon in parliament from 1844 till his death. His See also:elder brother, Sir FRANCIS See also:THORNHILL BARING (1796-1866), sat for See also:Portsmouth from 1826-1865. From 1839-1841 he was See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer, and from 1849-1852 first lord of the See also:admiralty. In 1866 he was created BARON See also:NORTHBROOK, the See also:barony being converted in 1876 into an earldom in favour of his eldest son Thomas See also:George Baring (1826-1904). The latter, the 1st See also:EARL OF NORTIIBROOK, was occupied almost entirely with public affairs, and filled at different times many important See also:official positions. He is best remembered as See also:viceroy of India, which See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he held from 1872-1876, but his last public position was first lord of the admiralty (188o-1885). With the death of Thomas Baring, See also:Edward See also:Charles Baring (1828-1897), son of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Baring, M.P., and See also:grandson of Sir Francis Baring, became See also:head of the firm of Baring Brothers, and in 1885 was raised to the peerage as BARON See also:REVELSTOKE. The house of Baring then stood at the height of its prosperity. During the following years a large amount of English See also:capital was advanced to the See also:Argentine See also:Republic, Barings undertaking the loans and guaranteeing the See also:interest. Through the continued See also:default of the Argentine See also:government, B arings became seriously involved, their heavy obligations precipitating a See also:general See also:financial crisis. Towards the end of 1890 it became known that the firm was on the See also:eve of suspending See also:payment, with liabilities amounting to £21,000,000. The prompt See also:action of the See also:Bank of England, which in conjunction with the leading See also:joint-stock See also:banks of the United See also:Kingdom took over these liabilities, averted further disaster, and the firm of Baring Brothers was subsequently reorganized as a limited company with a capital of LI,000,000.
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Besides those already referred to, various other members of the Baring family have achieved public distinction, notably Charles Baring (1807-1879), See also:bishop of See also:Durham, and See also:Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of See also:Cromer (q.v.).
BARING-See also:GOULD, See also:SABINE (1834- ), English novelist, was born at Exeter on the 28th of See also:January 1864. After graduating at See also:Clare See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he spent some years in travel, and became in 1864 See also:curate of Horbury, See also:Yorkshire; then perpetual curate of See also:Dalton, in the same See also:county, in 1867; and in 1871 See also:rector of East Mersea, See also:Essex. On his father's death in 1872 he inherited the See also:estate of Lew See also:Trenchard, North See also:Devon, where his family had been settled for nearly three centuries, and he exchanged his Essex living for the rectory of Lew Trenchard in 1881. He had a ready See also:pen, and began See also:publishing books on one subject or another—fiction, travel, See also:history, folk-See also:lore, See also:religion, See also:mythology, from 1854 onwards. His novel Mehalah (188o), the See also:scene of which is laid on the east See also:coast of England, was an excellent See also:story, and among many others maybe mentioned John See also:Herring (1883), a See also:tale of the See also:west See also:country; See also:Court Royal (1886); Red Spider (1887); The Pennycomequicks (1889); Cheap See also:Jack Zita (1893); and See also:Broom See also:Squire (1896), a See also:Sussex tale. His contributions to the study of See also:topography, antiquities and folk-lore, while popularly written, were also full of serious See also:research and real learning, notably his See also:Book of Were-wolves (1865), Curious Myths of the See also:Middle Ages (1866), Curious Survivals (1892). He produced at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time many volumes of sermons and popular See also:theology, and edited (1871-1873) The See also:Sacristy, a quarterly See also:review of ecclesiastical art and literature.
Living the See also:life of the rapidly disappearing English " squarson, and full of cultivated interests, especially in humanizing the See also:local See also:village mind, and investigating and recording the See also:good things of old-time, his many-sided activities were shown in every direction and his See also:literary facility made his See also:work known far and wide. His familiarity with the country-See also:side and his interest in folk-lore were of See also:special utility in recovering and preserving for publication a large See also:mass of English popular See also:song, and in assisting the new English See also:movement for studying and appreciating the old See also:national ballad-See also:music.
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