Everard Baring
Brigadier-General, The Hon. Everard Baring CBE, CVO (5 December 1865 — 7 May 1932) was a Chairman of the Southern Railway.
Baring was one of ten children of Edward Charles Baring (1st Baron Revelstoke of Membland) and Louisa Emily Charlotte Baring (née Bulteel). He was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He married Lady Ulrica Duncombe, daughter of William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl Feversham of Ryedale and Mabel Violet Graham, on 15 September 1904
His military career encompassed the Nile Expedition between 1897 and 1898, where he was mentioned in despatches twice. He was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905. Baring later served in the Great War and commanded a brigade in 1916.
After retirement from the military, he became a Director of the National Provincial Bank before becoming Chairman of the Southern Railway in 1924. He died in office in 1932, aged 66, from undisclosed causes.
Honours and awards
- Commander, Royal Victorian Order (1903)
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1919)
External links
- "Brig.-Gen. Hon. Everard Baring" at The Peerage
- 1865 births
- 1932 deaths
- British bankers
- British Army generals of World War I
- Southern Railway (Great Britain) people
- People associated with transport in London
- Place of birth missing
- People educated at Eton College
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- 10th Royal Hussars officers
- British Army personnel of the Mahdist War
- Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
