Maude Lorillard Baring


Maude Lorillard Baring was an American heiress who married into the British Baring banking family.

Early life

Maude was born on August 22, 1873 in Manhattan. She was the youngest daughter of Pierre Lorillard IV and Emily Lorillard.
Her paternal grandparents were Catherine Lorillard and Pierre Lorillard III of the Lorillard Tobacco Company. Among her large extended family were aunts Mary Lorillard Barbey, Catherine Lorillard Kernochan, Eva Lorillard Kip and uncles Louis Lasher Lorillard and George L. Lorillard, who was also a prominent thoroughbred racehorse owner like her father. Her maternal grandparents were Isaac Ebenezer Taylor and Eliza Mary Taylor.

Personal life

On April 15, 1893, she was married to Thomas Suffern Tailer by the Rev. Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee at Calvary Church in New York City in what was considered "by far the most fashionable Easter season wedding" of the year. Suffern, as he was known, a son of Edward Neufville Tailer and Agnes Tailer Before their divorce, they were the parents of:
While married to Tailer, she met the Hon. Cecil Baring, a British banker who was working in New York at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and was a business partner of her husband. The Tailer divorce, and subsequent marriage, between Maude and Cecil in London in 1902, led to Baring's resignation from the American bank. Cecil was the third, but second surviving, son of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, and his sister Margaret was married to Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer. In 1911, they returned to London and he was elected a director of the family firm, Baring Brothers and Co., later becoming head of the firm. Together, they were the parents of:
Maude died on April 2, 1922 at Marylebone in London. She was buried at Lambay Island in Ireland. Her husband succeeded his unmarried elder brother John in 1929 and became the 3rd Baron Revelstoke. Upon his death in 1934, their only son, Rupert, succeeded to the barony.