Francis Denzil Edward Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton, DL (20 July 1866 – 27 March 1938), was a British peer and politician.

His paternal grandparents were MP Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, and Hortense Maret (a daughter of Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, the 12th Prime Minister of France).

He was an officer in the Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers), where he was appointed a lieutenant on 17 August 1901, promoted to captain on 6 December 1902,[4] and ended as major.

Frances, one of the original "Florodora" sextet of 1901, was a daughter of James Caryll Donnelly of New York.

[7] One of Britain's foremost yachtsmen, Lord Ashburton died of a heart attack aboard the RMS Queen Mary on 27 March 1938.