| Honorific Suffix: | Bt |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Hampshire |
| Term Start: | 1832 |
| Term End: | 1832 |
| Alongside: | Charles Shaw-Lefevre |
| Predecessor: | Sir James Macdonald Charles Shaw-Lefevre |
| Successor: | Abolished |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for High Wycombe |
| Term Start1: | 1806 |
| Term End1: | 1832 |
| Alongside1: | Sir John Dashwood-King Hon. Robert Smith |
| Predecessor1: | Sir John Dashwood-King Sir Francis Baring |
| Successor1: | Hon. Robert Smith Hon. Charles Grey |
| Birth Date: | 12 June 1772 |
| Death Place: | Stratton Park, East Stratton, Hampshire |
| Parents: | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet Harriet Herring Baring |
| Relations: | Johann Baring (grandfather) |
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet (12 June 1772 – 3 April 1848), was a British banker and Member of Parliament.
Baring was born on 12 June 1772. A member of the Baring family, he was the eldest son of Harriet (née Herring) Baring and Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, founder of Barings Bank.
His grandfather, John (Johann) Baring, had emigrated from Germany and established the family in England. His maternal grandfather was merchant William Herring of Croydon and among his mother's family was her cousin, Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury.[1]
From 1790 and 1801, he worked with the Honourable East India Company. Thomas became a partner in Baring Brothers & Co. in 1804, remaining until 1809.[2] Upon his father's death in, 1810, he succeeded Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet.[1]
After his early career with the bank, Sir Thomas was elected a British Member of Parliament for the constituencies of High Wycombe and Hampshire until 1831.
From 1832 to 1833 he was the chairman of the London and South Western Railway. He was president of the London Institution and Director of the British Institution. In June 1841, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]
On 3 September 1794, he married Mary Ursula Sealy (1774–1846) in Calcutta, India. Mary was the daughter of Charles Sealy. Together, they were the parents of four sons and five daughters, including:[4]
On 3 April 1848, aged 75, he died at his residence Stratton Park House, East Stratton, Hampshire. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son who was later raised to the peerage in 1866 as Baron Northbrook.[6]