petitions for inquiry were presented and only two against, both from Winchester. Publicly the Barings, who were of the minority, supported inquiry to clear Bingham Baring’s name, leaving him to seek legal redress and to protest in correspondence to The Times. Nothing came of an attempt to revive the issue by means of a petition from the operative workmen of Oldham, 23 Feb. 1832.21

Baring contested Winchester successfully as a Liberal at the general elections of 1832 and 1835. He then defected to the Conservatives in 1835, and after failing at Stafford came in for Staffordshire North in 1837 and Thetford in 1841. He served at the board of control and as paymaster-general in Peel’s second ministry.22 He succeeded his father in the Ashburton peerage and estates and in1857 married, as his second wife, Caroline Stewart Mackenzie, 28 years his junior, with whom he had a daughter, born in June 1860. He left almost everything to them when he died in March 1864, and was succeeded by his brother Francis as 3rd Baron.23

Ref Volumes: 1820-1832

Author: Margaret Escott

Notes

1. For a report of the birth of another child see The Baring Archive, Baring mss DEP136.4, Francis Baring to mother [3 Aug. 1832].