Johann Baring

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John Baring, 1740

Johann Baring ( English also John Baring , born November 15, 1697 in Bremen , † 1748 in Larkbeare, Devon ) was a German-English businessman. The family later ran one of the largest family banks in the world.

Life

He came from the Baring family and was the son of Franz Baring (1656–1697), professor of theology in Bremen, and Rebecca Baring, b. Vogds (Vagds), daughter of one of the leading wool merchants in Bremen.

In 1717 he was sent to Exeter in Devon in England to learn the wool trade. Although he was supposed to return to Bremen, he decided to stay in England, where he was naturalized as a British citizen in 1723 and anglicized his first name to John. He became the leading manufacturer and merchant of woolen fabrics in the region and his family became one of the wealthiest in the West Country. He also participated in overseas trade with the British colony of Virginia .

In 1729 he married Elizabeth Anne Vowler (1702–1766), daughter of a wealthy grocer from Exeter. With her he had nine children, five of whom survived infancy, namely John Baring (1730-1816), Thomas Baring (1733-1758), Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740-1810), Charles Baring (1742-1829) ) and Elizabeth Baring (1744–1809), who in 1780 married the British lawyer and politician John Dunning (1731–1783), who in 1782 was ennobled as Baron Ashburton .

In 1737 Baring acquired the large manor and country estate Larkbeare House near Exeter, a house from the 16th century. In 1747 he bought the Lindridge House from the 17th century in Bishopsteignton near Exeter.

He died at Larkbeare House and was buried on November 3, 1748.

Baring's son Francis Baring and his brother John successfully expanded the company in Exeter, expanded to London in 1762 and founded Barings Bank there , one of the leading banks in Great Britain, which existed until 1995. Francis was made hereditary baronet in 1793 .

literature

  • Philip Ziegler: The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762-1929 . Collins, London 1988, ISBN 0-00-217508-8 .
  • Joseph Wechsberger: The Merchant Bankers ., Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1966.
  • George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Eds.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 1, Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester 2000, p. 276.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation ... , 1st part, Bremen 1818, digitized on Google Books, p. 18
  2. ^ Peter Townend: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Volume 3, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London 1972, p. 387.
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 13526, HMSO, London, May 7, 1793, p. 380 ( PDF , English).
personal data
SURNAME Baring, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baring, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-English wool merchant
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 1748
Place of death Larkbeare, Devon