Ann Louisa Baring


Anne Louisa Baring, Baroness Ashburton was the wife of Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton and first child of William Bingham and Ann Willing Bingham.

Early life

Anne Louisa Baring was born on 6 January 1782, the day before the Bank of North America sold its first charter shares, her father and grandfather working closely with Alexander Hamilton to write the by-laws. Her father was rumored to be the richest man in America after the Revolutionary War.
Her younger sister, Maria Matilda Bingham, married three times. First to French aristocrat, Jacques Alexandre, Comte de Tilly. Afterwards she married Anne Louisa's brother-in-law, Henry Baring. After their divorce in 1824, she married the Marquis de Blaisel in 1826.

Personal life

On 23 August 1798, Ann Louisa was married Alexander Baring, a son of Harriet Baring and Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet. Among his siblings was Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet and Henry Baring, His father and his uncle, John Baring established the London merchant house of John and Francis Baring Company, which eventually became Barings Bank. Together, Ann Louisa and Alexander had nine children:
In 1835, her husband was created the first Baron Ashburton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Lord Ashburton died on 12 May 1848 at Longleat, Wiltshire. Lady Ashburton died several months later on 5 December 1848 at Bay House in Gosport.

Descendants

Through her eldest son, she was a grandmother of Hon. Mary Florence Baring, who married William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton. Through her second son, he was a grandmother of Hon. Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton, and Hon. Maria Anne Louisa Baring, who married William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton.