Everard Baring

Who was Everard Baring?

Brigadier-General, The Hon. Everard Baring CBE, CVO was a Chairman of the Southern Railway.

Baring was one of ten children of Edward Charles Baring and Louisa Emily Charlotte Baring. He was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He married Lady Ulrica Duncombe, daughter of William Ernest Duncombe, 1st Earl Feversham of Ryedale and Mabel Violet Graham, on 15 September 1904

His military career encompassed the Nile Expedition between 1897 and 1898, where he was mentioned in despatches twice. He was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905. Baring later served in the Great War and commanded a brigade in 1916.

After retirement from the military, he became a Director of the National Provincial Bank before becoming Chairman of the Southern Railway in 1924. He died in office in 1932, aged 66, from undisclosed causes.