Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook
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The Right Honourable The Lord Northbrook FRS PC |
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| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 26 August 1839 – 30 August 1841 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Succeeded by | Henry Goulburn |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
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In office 1849 – 28 February 1852 |
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| Preceded by | The Earl of Auckland |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Northumberland |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 6 June 1834 – 14 November 1834 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
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In office 21 April 1835 – 26 August 1839 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Thomas Fremantle |
| Succeeded by | Robert Gordon |
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20 April 1796 Calcutta, India |
| Died | 6 September 1866 (aged 70) Micheldever, Hampshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Whig |
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| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook PC (20 April 1796 – 6 September 1866), known as Sir Francis Baring, Bt, from 1848 to 1866, was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.
A member of the famous Baring banking family, he was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary Ursula, eldest daughter of Charles Sealy. Baring was educated at Winchester College and then Eton College. He obtained a double first class from Christ Church, Oxford in 1817 and graduated with a Master of Arts four years later. In 1823, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and in 1848, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Baring entered the British House of Commons in 1826, sitting as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth until his retirement in 1865. A year later, he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Northbrook. Baring was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in 1830, a post he held for the next four years until June 1834. He was then a Secretary to the Treasury until November of the same year, executing this office again between 1835 and 1839. Subsequently Baring was sworn of the Privy Council and joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841. He returned to the cabinet in January 1849, replacing Lord Auckland as First Lord of the Admiralty in Russell's cabinet, until its fall in 1852.
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