Godfrey Baring

Godfrey Baring (Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet from 1911) (18 April 1871 – 24 November 1957) was a Liberal Party politician.

A member of Baring family of bankers, he was the son of Lieutenant-General Charles Baring and Helen Graham. He was a lifelong resident of the Isle of wight and chairman of the island's county council from 1898 until his death. From 1906-10 he was member of parliament for the Isle of Wight. He was made a baronet "of Nubia House in the parish of Northwood in the Isle of Wight" in 1911 and returned to the House of Commons as MP for Barnstaple, Devon in the same year, holding the seat until 1918.

He was briefly a member of the London County Council, elected to fill a vacancy as an alderman on 2 November 1920, he stood down at the next aldermanic elections in March 1922.