Henry Bingham Baring

Henry Bingham Baring was a British Conservative [Party (UK)|Conservative Party] politician. He was the son of Henry Baring and Maria Matilda Bingham, daughter of American-born statesman William Bingham. Bingham was a half-brother of Evelyn [Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer] and a member of the distinguished Baring family.
He entered the British [House of Commons|House of Commons] in 1831 as Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Callington (UK [Parliament constituency)|Callington] in Cornwall. When Callington was disenfranchised the following year, he was returned for the Marlborough constituency in Wiltshire, and held his seat until 1868.
He was the grandfather of Godfrey Baring, and great-grandfather of Poppy Baring, one of the famous Bright young things of the 1920s British avant-garde society.