Honorific Prefix: | Count |
Ferdinand Baston de Lariboisière | |
Birth Name: | Ferdinand Marie Auguste Baston |
Nationality: | French |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1856 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Relatives: | Honoré-Charles Baston de Lariboisière (father); Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière (grandfather) |
Awards: | Legion of Honour |
Office1: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 30 April 1882 |
Term End1: | 12 November 1885 |
Office2: | Member of the Senate |
Term Start2: | 7 January 1919 |
Term End2: | 23 December 1919 |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 16 November 1919 |
Term End3: | 31 May 1928 |
Ferdinand Marie Auguste Baston, Count de Lariboisière (1 January 1856 - 3 May 1931) was a French military officer and politician. He served as mayor of Louvigné-du-Désert, and as a general councillor, deputy, and senator of Ille-et-Vilaine.[1] [2] He was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.[3]
Baston was born on 1 January 1856 in Paris, the son of Honoré-Charles Baston de Lariboisière, a military officer and politician.[1] [4] His grandfather was Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière, a general who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Baston died on 3 May 1931 in Paris.[1]
Baston was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine in 1882. He was re-elected in October 1885 but resigned the following month.[4] In 1886, he was elected as a general councillor for Louvigné-du-Désert;[1] he also became mayor of the commune that year.
Baston returned to the French Parliament in 1906, this time being elected as a senator for Ille-et-Vilaine. He resigned as senator in 1919,[5] having been once again elected as a deputy; he was re-elected in 1924. He resigned as a general councillor in 1925, and retired from politics in 1928.[1]
Baston competed in the equestrian mail coach event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[6] [7]