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Full name | Amyas Evelyn Giles Baring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Roehampton, London, England |
21 January 1910||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 August 1986 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England |
(aged 76)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Guy Baring (Father), Rachel Ward (Granddaughter), Tracy Louise Ward (Granddaughter) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1935 and 1946 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1930–1939 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1930–1931 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 23 January 2010 |
Amyas Evelyn Giles Baring (1910–1986), known as Giles Baring, was a first-class English cricketer between the years 1930 and 1946.
A member of the Baring family of Barings Bank, Giles Baring was born Roehampton, London, 21 January 1910 the third son of Lt-Colonel the Hon. Guy Victor Baring, MP, Coldstream Guards, (1873–1916), himself the son of Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835–1889), and Olive Althea Smith (1887–1964). Giles Baring's father, Colonel Guy Baring, was Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1906 until his death in action in the First World War on 15 September 1916, leaving six children.
Baring was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He represented Cambridge University in 1930 and 1931 and Hampshire between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v New Zealanders match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v West Indians on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South Africans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945.