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M.P. for Salisbury, born 1795^ died unmarried, 1853, lord of this 

 manor, which he bequeathed, with his other estates, to his mother's 

 nephew, Thomas Baring, Esq., second son of Sir Thomas Baring, 

 second Baronet, her eldest brother. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. for 

 Huntingdon, and head of the great mercantile house of Baring 

 Brothers, was born in 1800, and died unmarried in 1873, a chancel 

 being added, in his memory, to the Church of West Tytherley, the 

 parish in which Norman Court, the family seat, is situate. He de- 

 vised his estates, to which he and Mr. Baring- Wall had both made 

 additions by purchase, to his cousin, William Henry Baring, Esq., 

 their present owner, eldest son of William Baring, Esq., M.P., 

 fourth son of Sir Francis Baring, first Baronet. 



The family of Baring i derives its origin from Petrus Baring, or 

 Bey ring, a citizen of Groningen, who removed to Germany in 1550 

 and died at Hamburgh in 1558. His direct male descendants were 

 doctors of theology and pastors at Bremen for three generations, 

 after which John Baring (bom 1697, died 1748), came over to 

 England, and settled at Exeter. By Elizabeth, his wife, daughter 

 of John Vowler, of Bellair, he had a numerous family, his third 

 son, Francis (created a Baronet 1793), founding the famous financial 

 house of Baring, in London. Sir Francis Baring (born 1740, died 

 1810) married, in 1766, Harriet, daughter of William Herring, of 

 Croydon, Esq., cousin and co-heir of Thomas Herring, Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, and had issue five sons and five daughters. His 

 eldest son, Sir Thomas Baring (born 1772, died 1848), married, 

 1794, Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealey, of Calcutta, Esq., 

 by whom he had four sons and three daughters. His eldest son, 

 created Baron Northbrook, 1866, was the father of the present Earl ; 

 his second son, Thomas Baring, Esq., was of Norman Court, and 

 lord of this manor; his third son, John Baring, was of Oak wood, 

 Co. Sussex, Esq. ; his fourth son, Charles, Bishop of Gloucester and 

 Bristol, 1856, o£ Durham, 1861. Alexander Baring, second son of 



* Arms of Baring, " Azure a fesse or, in chief a tear's head ppr. muzzled and 

 ringed or." Crest, " A mullet erminois between two wings argent." Burke's 

 '* Peerage," Northbrook and Ashbuiion. Berry's '* County Genealogies," Hants, 

 pp. 345, 348. 



