3-053-556 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr T. Baring, M.P., 1873. Engraving from the photograph by Mr. Henri Claudet of the '...head of the great mercantile house of Baring Brothers and Co...His eminent capacity for business soon made him a leading member of the partnership...Mr. Baring...had the satisfaction of seeing Baring Brothers and Co. become more and more established as a centre of international finance. He cultivated a taste for art in its highest manifestations; and as a patron of efforts to advance excellence in painting, and as a collector of one of the most famous of private galleries, his influence has been of great service to the fine arts. For the advancement of knowledge he was ever ready to give time and money...he was chairman of Lloyd's...a director of the Bank of England...a director of the East and West India Docks, chairman of the West India Mail Company, and a Neutrality Laws Commissioner. He was also chairman of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution...His politics were Conservative, but with a large infusion of independence and liberality, and a habit of thinking and acting for himself on all critical questions. He sat in the House of Commons for Great Yarmouth from 1835 to 1838'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.