Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke

Baring was born on 12 April 1864. He was the third, but second surviving, of seven sons and three daughters born to Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1828–1897) and the former Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. His elder brother was John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke.[1] His father was senior partner in the family banking firm of Baring Brothers and Co.[2] His sister, Margaret, was the wife of Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer.

His father was the second son of Henry Baring (son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet and brother of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer) and, his second wife, Cecilia Anne (née Windham). His maternal grandparents were John Crocker Bulteel, MP, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey (herself the daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey).[2]

Baring attended Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1887.[3]

Soon after leaving Oxford, he went to New York City where he joined Kidder, Peabody & Co. of which his uncle, Thomas Baring, was a partner. He retired from business in 1901 and devoted himself to agricultural and natural history pursuits, particularly at Lambay Island, north of Dublin, which he acquired in 1904.[3] He employed Edwin Lutyens to restore the castle there. In 1927, he donated an Etruscan bucchero vessel to the British Museum.[4]

In 1911, he returned to London and was elected a director of the family firm, Baring Brothers and Co., later becoming head of the firm.[3]

In 1929, he succeeded his unmarried elder brother John in the barony.[2]

Baring was reportedly engaged to Grace Wilson, who later married Cornelius Vanderbilt III (which caused his father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, to disinherit him).[3]

On 8 November 1902, Baring was married to Maude Louise (née Lorillard) Tailer of New York, the youngest daughter of the tobacco millionaire, Pierre Lorillard IV.[5] She was previously divorced from Thomas Suffern Tailer (a son of Edward Neufville Tailer),[6][7] one of Cecil's business partners.[8] Together, they were the parents of:[2]

• Hon. Daphne Baring (1904–1986), who married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of Arthur Pollen and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920.[2] They were the parents of Patrick Pollen.
• Hon. Calypso Baring (1905–1974), who married Guy Maynard Liddell, third son of Capt. Augustus Frederick Liddell, Comptroller and Treasurer to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (husband of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom) in 1926. They divorced in 1943.[2]
• Rupert Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke (1911–1994),[8] who married Hon. Florence Flora Fermor-Hesketh, second daughter of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh and the former Florence Louisa Breckinridge (a daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge of San Francisco). They divorced in 1944 and she married Lt.-Cmdr. Derek Lawson of Passenham Manor.[2]

Lady Revelstoke died on 2 April 1922.[9] Lord Revelstoke died in London on 26 January 1934.[2]

• Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke (1864-1934), Director of Baring Bros & Co Ltd at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Cecil Baring at Find a Grave