Francis Baring
1740 – 1810 British banker, merchant, politician
Founder of Barings, one of the oldest merchant banks in the world.
- Religion
- Protestant (Church of England).
- Affiliations
- Founded Barings Bank (Baring Brothers & Co); chairman of the British East India Company; Member of Parliament.
Descended from German immigrants, he built Baring Brothers into a leading merchant bank and served as a director and chairman of the East India Company. The bank financed governments and trade until its 1995 collapse under rogue trader Nick Leeson.
In the timeline
- 1762 Founding of Barings Bank mentioned