Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Earl of Cromer | |
Office: | Member of the House of Lords |
Status: | Lord Temporal |
Term Label: | as a hereditary peer |
Term Start: | 16 March 1991 |
Predecessor: | The 3rd Earl of Cromer |
Term End: | 11 November 1999 |
Successor: | Seat abolished |
Birth Name: | Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring |
Birth Date: | 3 June 1946 |
Occupation: | Peer, businessman |
Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer (born 3 June 1946), styled Viscount Errington from 1953 to 1991, is a British peer and businessman. He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. and a director of Schroder Asia Pacific Fund PLC. As Earl of Cromer, he was a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999.
The son of Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, and his wife Esmé Mary Gabrielle Harmsworth, a daughter of Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, he was educated at Eton College.[1] He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. between 1979 and 1994 and a director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc between 1995 and 2003.[2]
In 1991 he succeeded his father as Earl of Cromer, Viscount Errington, Viscount Cromer, and Baron Cromer.[1] As a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999, he is not recorded as having ever spoken there.
On 25 October 1971, Baring married firstly Plern Isangkul Na Ayuddya, a daughter of Dr. Charanpat Isangkul Na Ayuddya. They were divorced in 1992. In 1993 he married secondly Shelley Hu Cheng-Yu, daughter of Hu Guo-qin, with whom he has two children. They were divorced in 2019.[2]
In 2022 he married Jira Buengman. As of 2024, he lived in Bangkok.[3]