Ann Baring, Baroness Ashburton Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Lady Ashburton
Birth Name:	Ann Louisa Bingham
Birth Date:	6 January 1782
Death Place:	Bay House, Gosport, England
Parents:	William Bingham Ann Willing Bingham
Children:	9, including Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, Harriet Thynne, Marchioness of Bath
Relations:	Maria Matilda Bingham (sister)

Ann Louisa Baring, Baroness Ashburton (née Ann Louisa Bingham; 6 January 1782 – 5 December 1848) was the wife of Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton and first child of William Bingham and Ann Willing Bingham.

Early life

Ann Louisa Bingham was born on 6 January 1782, the day before the Bank of North America sold its first charter shares, her father and grandfather working closely with Alexander Hamilton to write the by-laws. Her father was rumored to be the richest man in America after the Revolutionary War.^[1]

Her younger sister, Maria Matilda Bingham, married three times. First to French aristocrat, Jacques Alexandre, Count of Tilly. Afterwards she married Anne Louisa's brother-in-law, Henry Baring. After their divorce in 1824, she married the Marquess of Blaisel in 1826.^[2]

Personal life

On 23 August 1798, Ann was married to Alexander Baring (1774–1848), a son of Harriet Herring and Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet.^[3] Among his siblings were Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet and Henry Baring (an MP for Bossiney^[4] and Colchester),^[5] His father, alongside his uncle John Baring, established the London merchant house of John and Francis Baring Company, which eventually became Barings Bank.^[6] Together, Ann and Alexander had nine children:

• Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799–1864), who married Lady Harriet Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich.^[7]
• Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton (1800–1868), who married Hortense Maret (–1882), daughter of Hughes-Bernard Maret, 1st Duke of Bassano, Prime Minister of France.
• Hon. Harriet Baring (1804–1892), married Henry Thynne, 3rd Marquess of Bath.^[8]
• Hon. Rev. Frederick Baring (1806–1868), Rector of Itchen Stoke, married Frederica Ashton on 24 April 1831.
• Hon. Anne Eugenia Baring (d. 1839), married Humphrey St John-Mildmay.
• Alexander Baring (1810–1832), who died on board HMS Alfred in the Mediterranean.
• Hon. Arthur Baring (1818–1838), who died unmarried.
• Hon. Louisa Emily Baring (d. 1888)
• Hon. Lydia Emily Baring (d. 1868)

In 1835, her husband was created the first Baron Ashburton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.^[9]

Lord Ashburton died on 12 May 1848 at Longleat, Wiltshire. Lady Ashburton died several months later on 5 December 1848 at Bay House in Gosport.^[10]

Descendants

Through her eldest son, she was a grandmother of Hon. Mary Florence Baring (1860–1902), who married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton.^[11] Through her second son, she was a grandmother of Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835–1889), and Hon. Maria Anne Louisa Baring (1833–1928), who married William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Book: ALBERTS, ROBERT C. The Golden Voyage. registration. 1969. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 435.
2. Web site: The Peerage, page 1308 . August 5, 2015.
3. Book: Eden . Emily . Miss Eden's Letters . 2012 . Library of Alexandria . 978-1-4655-7270-7 . 418 . 4 June 2020 . en.
4. Web site: leighrayment.com House of Commons: Bodmin to Bradford East . 29 August 2019 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231554/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons4.htm . 10 August 2009 .
5. Web site: leighrayment.com House of Commons: Clonmel to Cork County West . 29 August 2019 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20091220042059/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons5.htm . 20 December 2009 .
6. Book: Debrett's . Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage . 1916 . Kelly's Directories . 670 . 24 August 2019 . en.
7. Web site: Sandwich, Earl of (E, 1660) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 29 August 2019.
8. Web site: Bath, Marquess of (GB, 1789) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 29 August 2019 . 31 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131231055436/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/bath1789.htm#BATH_1789_3 . live .
9. Book: Ashton . Rosemary . Thomas And Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage . 2012 . . 978-1-4481-3704-6 . 1906 . 4 June 2020 . en.
10. Web site: Ashburton, Baron (UK, 1835) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 29 August 2019 . 30 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234613/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ashburton1835.htm . live .
11. Web site: Northampton, Marquess of (UK, 1812) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 29 August 2019.
12. Web site: Grafton, Duke of (E, 1675) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Heraldic Media Limited . 2019-12-12 . 2019-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190427001827/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/grafton1675.htm#GRAFTON_1675_6 . live .