Walter Baring (22 October 1844 – 3 April 1915) was an English diplomat.
[1] He was the tenth and youngest son of banker and politician Henry Baring and, his second wife, Cecilia Anne Windham.
[2] His father was first married, and divorced, to Maria Matilda Bingham.
[3] Among his siblings were elder half-brother Henry Bingham Baring, MP for Callington and Marlborough, and older full brothers, Edward, raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Revelstoke, and Evelyn, who inherited Cromer Hall and was raised to the peerage as 1st Earl of Cromer, and banker Tom Baring.
[4] Baring, who was educated at Eton and Oxford,[5] was a member of the Diplomatic Service from 1865 until 1906, culminating with his service as Minister Resident at Montevideo and Consul-General to Uruguay between 1893 and 1906.