Evelyn Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer

Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring, 4th Earl of Cromer (born 3 June 1946), styled Viscount Errington from 1953 to 1991, is a British peer and businessman. He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. and a director of Schroder Asia Pacific Fund PLC. As Earl of Cromer, he was a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999.

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Cromer
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
16 March 1991 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 3rd Earl of Cromer
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
Born
Evelyn Rowland Esmond Baring

(1946-06-03) 3 June 1946
OccupationPeer, businessman

The son of Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, and his wife Esmé Mary Gabrielle Harmsworth, a daughter of Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, he was educated at Eton College.[1] He was managing director of Inchcape (China) Ltd. between 1979 and 1994 and a director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc between 1995 and 2003.[2]

In 1991 he succeeded his father as Earl of Cromer, Viscount Errington, Viscount Cromer, and Baron Cromer.[1] As a member of the House of Lords from 1991 to 1999, he is not recorded as having ever spoken there.[3]

On 25 October 1971, Baring married firstly Plern Isangkul Na Ayuddya, a daughter of Dr. Charanpat Isangkul Na Ayuddya. They were divorced in 1992. In 1993 he married secondly Shelley Hu Cheng-Yu, daughter of Hu Guo-qin, with whom he has two children. They were divorced in 2019.[2]

  • Alexander Rowland Harmsworth Baring, Viscount Errington (born 1994)
  • Lady Venetia Baring (born 1998)

Notes
  1. Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Vol. XIV (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 223.
  2. Burke's Peerage, vol. 1 (2003), p. 981.
  3. Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Cromer
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