Alexander Francis St Vincent Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton (7 April 1898 – 12 June 1991), was a British businessman and politician.

Through his father, he was a member of the German Baring family and a descendant of American statesman William Bingham.

He had four sisters, only one of whom married: Aurea Vera Baring, the wife of Maj. Charles Balfour (a grandson of Mark McDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim).

[2] His maternal grandfather was French statesman Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, and his paternal grandparents were Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton, a Member of Parliament for Thetford, and the Hon.

[6] Together, they were the parents of two sons:[7] Ashburton and his family lived in Hampshire, where he was active in public life and later as Lord Lieutenant of the county.