Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet KBE, DL, JP (18 April 1871 – 24 November 1957)[1] was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight and later Barnstaple.

In 1898 he became chairman of the Isle of Wight County Council, a position he held for the rest of his life.

[2] He was created a baronet, of Nubia House in the parish of Northwood in the Isle of Wight, on 4 February 1911.

[2][5] At the 1918 general election, he sought to return to the House as member of parliament again for the Isle of Wight, but finished second.

[6] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in Elizabeth II's first birthday honours in 1952 for public services and in recognition of the fact that he had been "Chairman of the Isle of Wight County Council for over fifty years and Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for twenty-seven years".