Sir Thomas Baring 2nd Bart.

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Baring Brothers
Partner

Merchant Banker (Finance)

Notes

Partner 1800-1809

Sources

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/baring-thomas-1772-1848

Firm Notes

Partners in mid-1830s = Thomas Baring (grandson of Sir Francis); Humphrey St John Mildmay was the 'over-cautious' son-in-law of Alexander Baring; Joshua Bates; John and Francis Baring. One of 'the City's two dominant merchant banks.'

Firm Sources

Kynaston City of London I, pp 92-3 for Bates; pp. 115-6 for 'Tom' Baring and Mildmay: p. 117 for role with Rothschilds.

Further Information

People of Interest

Colin Campbell Lloyd (née Baillie)

1781 - 1830

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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