Baring, Sir Francis 1740-1810
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Business papers, including correspondence, accounts and memoranda, 1762-1810, relating to financial interests in Europe, South America and India. Political material, 1775-c. 1809, contained in boxes A, B and D of the Northbrook papers. Baring Bros. Archives. 14
Correspondence with various persons on East India Company matters, 1785-1807. Home Miscellaneous Papers, India Office Library.
Answers to a series of questions on the East India Company's estimated sales and costs, c. 1792. Manchester JRUL, MS. 933
Correspondents
HENRY DUNDAS, 1st Viscount Melville, several letters, 17891808.
National Library of Scotland (NLS), MS. 1064.
HENRY DUNDAS, 1st Viscount Melville, two letters, 1794-1807. Melville Castle Muniments, Scottish RO
CHARLES GREY, 2nd Earl Grey, four letters, 1806. Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
ROBERT HOBART, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, several letters, 1794-1798.
MSS. of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, National Register of Archives (NRA) 0001.
CHARLES JENKINSON, 1st Earl of Liverpool, five letters, 1791 – 1793. BL Add. MSS. 38228-38310.
GEORGE MACARTNEY, Earl Macartney, one or two letters, 1781 – 1785. Macartney papers, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia.
WILLIAM PITT the Younger, four letters, n.d. Chatham papers, Public Record Office (PRO)
Printed Material
Palgrave I 121; ODNB
Portrait: Baring Bros.