Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke

Baring was born on 12 April 1864. He was the third, but second surviving, of seven sons and three daughters born to Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1828–1897) and the former Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. His elder brother was John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=BRITAIN MOURNS LOSS OF GREAT FINANCIER; Revelstoke's Services for Nation Were Many--Restored the Firm of Baring Brothers. Well Posted on America. Was Privy Concilor. Compared to J.P. Morgan. Was Member of Privy Council. Brothers Served in War. An Oarsman at Eton. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/04/20/archives/britain-mourns-loss-of-great-financier-revelstokes-services-for.html |accessdate=13 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 April 1929}} His father was senior partner in the family banking firm of Baring Brothers and Co. His sister, Margaret, was the wife of Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer.

His father was the second son of Henry Baring (son of Francis Baring, 1st Baronet) by his second wife, Cecilia Anne (née Windham), and brother of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. His maternal grandparents were John Crocker Bulteel, MP, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grey (herself the daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey).

Baring attended Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1887.

Soon after leaving Oxford, he went to New York City where he joined Kidder, Peabody & Co. of which his uncle, Thomas Baring, was a partner. He retired from business in 1901 and devoted himself to agricultural and natural history pursuits, particularly at Lambay Island, north of Dublin, which he acquired in 1904. He employed Edwin Lutyens to restore the castle there. In 1927, he donated an Etruscan bucchero vessel to the British Museum.{{cite web |title=Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG57337 |website=www.britishmuseum.org |publisher=British Museum |accessdate=13 July 2020}}

In 1911, he returned to London and was elected a director of the family firm, Baring Brothers and Co., later becoming head of the firm.{{cite news |title=LORD REVELSTOKE DIES IN LONDON, 69; Head of Baring Bros. & Co., Banking House, Succeeded to Title in 1929. ONCE WAS RESIDENT HERE His Widow Was Former Maude Lorillard, Daughter of the Late Pierre Lorillard. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/01/26/archives/lord-reyelstoke-dies-in-london-69-head-of-baring-bros-co-balking.html |accessdate=13 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 January 1934}}

In 1929, he succeeded his unmarried elder brother John in the barony.

Baring was reportedly engaged to Grace Wilson, who later married Cornelius Vanderbilt III (which caused his father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, to disinherit him).

On 8 November 1902, Baring was married to Maude Louise (née Lorillard) Tailer of New York, the youngest daughter of the tobacco millionaire, Pierre Lorillard IV.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E6D91F3BE733A25753C1A9679D946397D6CF "Mrs. M. L. Tailer's Wedding; Will Be, or Has Become, the Bride of the Hon. Cecil Baring, in London, It Is Said."]The New York Times April 10, 1902. p. 9 She was previously divorced from Thomas Suffern Tailer (a son of Edward Neufville Tailer),[https://www.nytimes.com/1893/04/16/archives/wedded-before-many-friends-miss-maud-lorillard-becomes-mrs-t.html "Wedded Before Many Friends; Miss Maud Lorillard Becomes Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer. Dr. Satterlee Performs a Simple Ceremony in Calvary Church—Wedding Breakfast at the Lorillard Residence—Showered with Rice as They left the House—One Hundred Thousand Dollars' Worth of Presents—To Spend a Few Months at the World's Fair and Then to go Abroad."] The New York Times April 16, 1893. p. 10{{cite news|title=SEPARATION REPORTED OF SUFFERN TAILERS; Wife Probably Will Ask Divorce, His Secretary Says in Washington.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/11/05/archives/separation-reported-of-suffern-tailers-wife-probably-will-ask.html|accessdate=28 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=5 November 1933}} one of Cecil's business partners. Together, they were the parents of:

• Hon. Daphne Baring (1904–1986), who married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of Arthur Pollen and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920. They were the parents of Patrick Pollen.
• Hon. Calypso Baring (1905–1974), who married Guy Maynard Liddell, third son of Capt. Augustus Frederick Liddell, Comptroller and Treasurer to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (husband of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom) in 1926. They divorced in 1943.
• Rupert Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke (1911–1994),{{cite news |title=Obituary: Lord Revelstoke |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-revelstoke-1415040.html |accessdate=13 July 2020 |work=The Independent |date=20 July 1994 |language=en}} who married Hon. Florence Flora Fermor-Hesketh, second daughter of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh and the former Florence Louisa Breckinridge (a daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge of San Francisco). They divorced in 1944 and she married Lt.-Cmdr. Derek Lawson of Passenham Manor.

Lady Revelstoke died on 2 April 1922.{{cite news|title=Obituary 2|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/04/04/archives/obituary-2-no-title.html|accessdate=28 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=4 April 1922}} Lord Revelstoke died in London on 26 January 1934.{{cite web |title=Revelstoke, Baron (UK, 1885) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/revelstoke1885.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |accessdate=13 July 2020}}

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