Background
BARING, Godfrey was born on April 18, 1871. Son of late Lieutenant-General Charles Baring (Coldstream Guards) and Helen, 3rd daughter of Right Honourable Sir James Graham, 2nd. Baronet, of Netherby.
BARING, Godfrey was born on April 18, 1871. Son of late Lieutenant-General Charles Baring (Coldstream Guards) and Helen, 3rd daughter of Right Honourable Sir James Graham, 2nd. Baronet, of Netherby.
Eton.
Contested Liberal Isle of Wight, 1900. Stoke-on-Trent, 1900. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Isle of Wight, 1906-1910.
Member Isle of Wight County Council, Board of Guardians, Cowes Urban District Council. Member of the Board of Visitors for Parkhurst Convict Prison. On the managing committee of three London and two Isle of Wight hospitals.
Chairman of Isle of Wight County Council. Justice of the Peace, D.L.; High Sheriff of Hampshire, 1897.
Liberal.
Clubs: Brooks’s, Bachelors', Travellers’, National Liberal; Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes.
Shooting, yachting, cricket, tennis, motoring.
Spouse 1898, Eva Hermione,daughter of late Mackintosh of Mackintosh of MoyHall, Inverness.