Baring Brothers

Firm Details

People & Investments (7)

Investment in Firm

Senior partner

Alexander Baring

Partner

Thomas Baring

Partner

Sir Thomas Baring 2nd Bart.

Other partner

Henry Baring

Other partner

Humphrey St John-Mildmay

Other partner

John Baring

Firm Evolutions (1)

1834 →

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Notes

Partners in mid-1830s = Thomas Baring (grandson of Sir Francis); Humphrey St John Mildmay was the 'over-cautious' son-in-law of Alexander Baring; Joshua Bates; John and Francis Baring. One of 'the City's two dominant merchant banks.'

Sources

Kynaston City of London I, pp 92-3 for Bates; pp. 115-6 for 'Tom' Baring and Mildmay: p. 117 for role with Rothschilds.

Further Information

People of Interest

Colin Campbell Lloyd (née Baillie)

1781 - 1830

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.

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Documents of Interest

Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

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