Alexander Hugh Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton, DL (4 May 1835 – 18 July 1889[1]), was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician.
[3] His paternal grandparents were Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, and the American heiress Ann Louisa Bingham (whose father was U.S.
[6] Baring was elected unopposed as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Thetford at a by-election in December 1857, filling the vacancy caused by his father's succession to the peerage.
Together, they were the parents of:[2] He was an art collector and owned many prominent pieces, including Rembrandt's 1660 self portrait, Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen and Herdsmen with Cattle (1655/1660), and Meindert Hobbema's Hut among Trees (c. 1664).
Lord Ashburton died at Bath House, Piccadilly, in London, and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son Francis.