Francis Denzil Edward Baring

Lord Ashburton was the son of Alexander Hugh Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton, a Member of Parliament for Thetford, and the Hon. Leonora Caroline Digby. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Ashburton, of Ashburton, Devon, on 18 July 1889 and took his seat in the House of Lords. He gained the rank of Major in the service of the Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers).  In 1891, Baring was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Southampton. On 25 July 1889, he married Mabel Edith Hood at St. George’s Church in London, England. Mabel was the eldest daughter of Francis Hood, 4th Viscount Hood and the former Edith Lydia Drummond Ward. They had four daughters and one son. After the death of his first wife in 1904, he married the American actress Frances Donnelly, whose stage name was “Frances Belmont,” on 19 February 1906.   Lord Ashburton sold the entire Ashburton art collection to a syndicate of Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London in 1907. He died on 27 March 1938 of a heart attack aboard the RMS Queen Mary on. Link: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1169.pdf