Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton (22 May 1800[1] – 6 September 1868), was an American-born British politician and peer.
After successfully travelling on business to North America and the West Indies he was made a quarter share partner in the bank in 1823.
[3] However, after unfortunate financial speculations in Mexican land and in the French sugar market, he was demoted to a non-executive director in 1828 and in 1830 was given his brother's Parliamentary seat for Thetford.
[5] He was returned again for Thetford at a by-election in August 1848,[5] and held the seat until his resignation through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 30 November 1857.
[7][8] He married in 1832 Claire Hortense (c. 1812 – 1882), a daughter of Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, and moved to live in Paris.