Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, PC FRS (20 April 1796 – 6 September 1866), known as Sir Francis Baring, 3rd Baronet, from 1848 to 1866, was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.

He obtained a double first class from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1817, and graduated with a Master of Arts four years later.

[1] Baring entered the British House of Commons in 1826, sitting as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth until his retirement in 1865.

[1] Subsequently, Baring was sworn of the Privy Council and joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841.

They were the parents of: Secondly, in 1841 he married Lady Arabella Georgina Howard (1809–1884) at St George's, Hanover Square.