Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 17 August 1958), known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the Baring family.
Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton,[1] and his first wife, Susan Renwick,[2] daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick.
He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020.
[3][better source needed] Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate J. P. Morgan, were his great-grandparents through his paternal grandmother, Doris, Baroness Ashburton (née Harcourt).
Baring married Miranda Caroline Wright (born 1961) on 29 October 1983.