ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING, LORD

ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING, LORD
   second son of Sir Francis Baring, a Liberal politician, turned Conservative, member of Peel's administration in 1834-35, sent special ambassador to the United States in 1842; concluded the boundary treaty of Washington, known as the Ashburton Treaty; in his retirement "a really good, solid, most cheery, sagacious, simple-hearted old man" (1774-1848).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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