Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook

Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (1796–1866) was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1823. Member of Parliament for Portsmouth, 1826–1865. A Lord of the Treasury, 1830–1834, and a Secretary to the Treasury, June – November 1834 and 1835–1839. He entered the cabinet in 1839 as Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving until the fall of the Melbourne government in August 1841. He returned to the cabinet in January 1849, replacing Lord Auckland as First Lord of the Admiralty in Russell's cabinet and serving until its fall in 1852. He was created Baron Northbrook in 1866. He was a member of the famous Baring banking family.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Markham John Bonham-Carter	Member of Parliament for Portsmouth John Bonham-Carter 1826-1838 Sir George Thomas Staunton 1838-1852 The Viscount Monck 1852-1857 Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone 1857-1865 1826–1865	Succeeded by William Henry Stone Stephen Gaselee
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Spring-Rice	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1839–1841	Succeeded by Henry Goulburn
Preceded by The Earl of Auckland	First Lord of the Admiralty 1849–1852	Succeeded by The Duke of Northumberland
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Northbrook 1866	Succeeded by Thomas Baring