Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook (8 December 1850 – 12 April 1929), styled Viscount Baring from 1876 to 1904, was a British politician.
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Early life
Northbrook was the eldest and only surviving son of Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, and his wife Elizabeth Harriett Sturt, daughter of Henry Charles Sturt and sister of Henry Sturt, 1st Baron Alington. His sister, Lady Jane Emma Baring, was the second wife of Col. Hon. Sir Henry George Lewis Crichton, third son of John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne.
He was educated at Eton and later served in the Rifle Brigade and in the Grenadier Guards.
Career
Between 1873 and 1876 he was aide-de-camp to his father, the Viceroy of India. In 1880, he entered the House of Commons for Winchester as a Liberal, a seat he held until 1885. He supported the Ilbert Bill arguing that racial disqualifications for judicial offices were "a grave political evil" that intensified racial antagonisms.
He disagreed with William Ewart Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and later represented Biggleswade as a Liberal Unionist from 1886 to 1892.