Evelyn Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer
{{Short description|British peer and businessman (born 1946)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable
| name = The Earl of Cromer
| office = Member of the House of Lords
| status = Lord Temporal
| term_label = as a hereditary peer
| term_start = 16 March 1991
| predecessor = The 3rd Earl of Cromer
| term_end = 11 November 1999
| successor = Seat abolished{{thin space|{{efn|Pursuant to the House of Lords Act 1999.}}}}
| birth_name = Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|6|3|df=y}}
| occupation = Peer, businessman
}}
Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer (born 3 June 1946), styled Viscount Errington from 1953 to 1991, is a British peer and businessman. He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. and a director of Schroder Asia Pacific Fund PLC. As Earl of Cromer, he was a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999.
Background
The son of Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, and his wife Esmé Mary Gabrielle Harmsworth, a daughter of Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, he was educated at Eton College.Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Vol. XIV (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 223. He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. between 1979 and 1994 and a director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc between 1995 and 2003.Burke's Peerage, vol. 1 (2003), p. 981.
In 1991 he succeeded his father as Earl of Cromer, Viscount Errington, Viscount Cromer, and Baron Cromer. As a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999, he is not recorded as having ever spoken there.{{Hansard-contribs | mr-evelyn-baring | the Earl of Cromer}}
On 25 October 1971, Baring married firstly Plern Isangkul Na Ayuddya, a daughter of Dr. Charanpat Isangkul Na Ayuddya. They were divorced in 1992. In 1993 he married secondly Shelley Hu Cheng-Yu, daughter of Hu Guo-qin, with whom he has two children. They were divorced in 2019.
In 2022 he married Jiraporn Buengman.{{cn|date=April 2024}} As of 2024, he lived in Bangkok.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/02/07/earl-of-cromer-criticises-daughter-princess-diana-claim/ Earl of Cromer criticises daughter over her Princess Diana claims]
= Issue =
- Alexander Rowland Harmsworth Baring, Viscount Errington (born 1994)
- Lady Venetia Baring (born 1998)
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Category:20th-century English businesspeople
Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge