- BARING, SIR FRANCIS
- founder of the great banking firm of Baring Brothers & Co.; amassed property, value of it said to have been nearly seven millions (1740-1810).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BARING, SIR FRANCIS
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