Mark Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton


Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton, known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the Baring family.

Background and education

Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, and his first wife, Susan Renwick, daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick. His parents divorced in 1984. He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020.
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate J. P. Morgan, were his great-grandparents through his paternal grandmother, Doris, Baroness Ashburton.

Marriage and children

Baring married Miranda Caroline Wright on 29 October 1983. They have four children: