Amyas Evelyn Giles Baring (21 January 1910 – 29 August 1986), known as Giles Baring, was an English

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er between the years 1930 and 1946.

Background

A member of the Baring family of

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, Giles Baring was born

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, London, 21 January 1910 the third son of Lt-Colonel the Hon. Guy Victor Baring, MP,

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, (1873–1916), himself the son of

Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton Alexander Hugh Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton, (4 May 1835 – 18 July 1889) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician. Early life Baring was the son of Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton (1800–1868), and his wife Hortense Euge ...

(1835–1889), and Olive Althea Smith (1887–1964). (accessed 14 October 2007) Giles Baring's father, Colonel Guy Baring, was Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1906 until his death in action in the

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on 15 September 1916, leaving five children. Baring had four brothers, Oliver Hugh (1904–1908), Simon Alexander Vivian (1905–1962), Aubrey George Adeane (1912–1987), and Esmond Charles (1914–1963), and one sister, Olivia Constance Leonora (1908–1975). In 1911 the family was living at 6, Hobart Place, St George Hanover Square,

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Education

Baring was educated at

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, Winchester, Gresham's School, Holt, and

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Cricketer

He represented

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in 1930 and 1931 and

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between 1930 and 1939. Apart from more than fifty regular county championship games, he played in the Cambridge University v

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ers match of 3 June 1931, for the Gentlemen in the

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matches of 2 September 1931 and 11 July 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v

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on 24 May 1933, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 23 May 1934, for Hampshire in Hampshire v South Africans on 22 May 1935, for Hampshire in Hampshire v Australians on 25 May 1938, and for

H. D. G. Leveson Gower Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower ( ; 8 May 1873 – 1 February 1954) was an English cricketer from the Leveson-Gower family. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Surrey and captained England in Test cricket. His school n ...

s XI v Australian Services on 7 July 1945. He played for

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(MCC) between 1935 and 1946, and his last first-class game was in the MCC v

match on 29 June 1946. Baring was a right-arm fast bowler and also a right-hand batsman. As a bowler, he took 197 wickets for 5,607 runs, an average of 28.46. As a batsman, he played 103 first-class innings, was not out 27 times and was never stumped. His average as a batsman was 8.73. A good all-rounder, he was also able to ride a unicycle.

Family

He married firstly, on 25 May 1935, Mona Montgomerie Mullins, the daughter of Colonel Willoughby Brooking Mullins of Ambersham House, Midhurst, Sussex, and they had one daughter, Claire Leonora Baring, born 29 February 1936 and died 4 August 2019, who was married to (and then divorced from) the Hon. Peter Alistair Ward (a son of the 3rd Earl of Dudley). (accessed 14 October 2007) Claire Baring then lived with the late Lord Lambton (d. 30 December 2006) at

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in Italy until his death, but they never married. Baring was divorced in 1949 and married secondly Peggy Michell Gaskell, the daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Gaskell, on 23 May 1949, but they had no children. Baring died at

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, Northumberland, on 29 August 1986. By his daughter, Baring had three grandchildren, the actress

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(born 1957), the actress and environmentalist

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(born 1958), and Alexander Evelyn Giles Ward (born 1961), a banker and company director.

References

External links

First-Class Matches played by Giles Baring

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