John Baring was a German-born British merchant. Born in the Duchies of Bremen and Verden, he subsequently emigrated to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1717 as the apprentice of a wool merchant. His decision to settle permanently in England started the Baring family on the road to becoming one of the leading banking families in the world.
Johann Baring
Lindridge House was a large 17th-century mansion, one of the finest in the south-west situated about 1 mile south of Ideford in the parish of Bishopsteignton, Devon, about 4 1/2 miles NE of Newton Abbot. It was destroyed by fire on 25 April 1963 and its ruins were finally demolished in the early 1990s, upon which was built a housing development.
The Baring brothers, John II (centre) & Francis (left), with Charles Wall (right), by Sir Thomas Lawrence
"Lindridge", watercolour by Rev. John Swete dated July 1795. View of west front. Devon Record Office DRO 564M/F8/133
The Honourable Ruth Cable (c.1898-1973), Lady Benthall, 1935, by Glyn Philpot
Sir Edward Charles Benthall (1893-1961), KCSI, as a Young Man, 1925, by Glyn Philpot