Guy Victor Baring, a Member of Parliament for Winchester and a soldier in the Coldstream Guards.
[2] He had four brothers, Oliver Hugh (1904–1908), Simon Alexander Vivian (1905–1962), Aubrey George Adeane (1912–1987), and Esmond Charles (1914–1963), and one sister, Olivia Constance Leonora (1908–1975).
[3] Although he had not appeared regularly at first-class level for Cambridge University, Baring began playing for Hampshire as a right-arm fast bowler, debuting in the County Championship against Gloucestershire at Southampton.
[3] Baring returned to play for Hampshire against the touring West Indians in May 1934, with him making four further first-class appearances that season.
[3] He played three times for Hampshire in 1934, having returned to his pre-injury bowling pace, notably with success against the touring Australians.
[5] Baring returned to play for Hampshire in 1939, with him making eleven first-class appearances and taking 34 wickets at an average of 22.52, including match figures of 10 for 110 against Kent.
[5] Following the Second World War, he did not return to play for Hampshire, but did make a final first-class appearance in 1946 for the MCC against Cambridge University at Lord's.
Following his first-class cricket career, Baring concentrated on his business interests, which included cement production and the import of goods from West Africa.
[16] In the same year, he was involved in a divorce case where he was ordered to pay £2000 to the husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair,[17] which was said to have "crippled him" financially.