page_title: Lindridge House
section_title: Baring
hierarchical_section_title: Lindridge House / Descent / Baring
caption_attribution_description: English: Francis Baring (1740-1810) (left), together with John Baring and Charles Wall
context_page_description: Lindridge House was a large 17th-century mansion, one of the finest in the south-west situated about 1 mile south of Ideford in the parish of Bishopsteignton, Devon, about 4 1/2 miles NE of Newton Abbot. It was destroyed by fire on 25 April 1963 and its ruins were finally demolished in the early 1990s, upon which was built a housing development.
  The gardens have been restored and are Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
context_section_description: In 1747 Lindridge was purchased for £8,000 by John Baring I (1697–1748), of Larkbeare House (38 Holloway Road), Exeter. Baring was one of the wealthiest cloth merchants of Exeter, a Lutheran born in Bremen, Germany. His heir was his son  John Baring II (1730–1816), who founded with his younger brother Francis Baring (1740–1810), created the 1st Baring baronet "of Larkbeer" in 1793, the company which became Barings Bank. In 1755 he purchased Mount Radford House, Exeter, which became his home and where he died, and served as MP for Exeter in 1776, and was Sheriff of Devon in 1776. In 1765 he sold Lindridge to John Line (died 1777).
caption: The Baring brothers, John II (centre) & Francis (left), with Charles Wall (right), by Sir Thomas Lawrence
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