Thomas Baring

Partner in Baring Brothers 1828-1873, counterclaimed unsuccessully with his partners as assignees for the compensation on Spring Garden in British Guiana but the firm intercepted successfully the compensation awarded on the estates of Wolfert Katz, a major debtor of the firm, in British Guiana.

1. Thomas Baring (1799-1873), son of Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848) (q.v.) and Mary Sealy, and brother of John Baring (q.v.). Unmarried. Partner in the firm between 1828 and his death in 1873.

2. MP Great Yarmouth 1835-37; Huntingdon 1844-77. Founding member and initial director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and on the original Board of Directors. Declined the Chancellorship of the Exchequer 1852 and 1858. Commissioner of the Great Exhibition. Chairman of Lloyds 1830-68. Director of Bank of England 1848-67. Died 18/11/1873, leaving £1,500,000.

T71/887 British Guiana no. 2282 (Spring Garden); T71/885 British Guiana nos. 21, 89, 270, 272, 363, 378A&B&C, 424 and 479 for the Wolfert Katz awards estates.

1. The Baring Archive: Baring's directors and Baring genealogy

2. Rubinstein 1873/6; email from Luke Turner 31/03/2017 sourced to RMSPC Archives, National Maritime Museum, RMS/54/1, Report of the Directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 26th September 1839.

We are grateful to Luke Turner for his assistance with compiling this entry.