page_title: Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of Arms of Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, KG, KCVO, KStJ, DL
context_page_description: Alexander Francis St Vincent Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton KG KCVO KStJ DL, was a British businessman and politician.
context_section_description: On 17 November 1924, he was married to the Hon. Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt (1900–1981), the eldest daughter of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt and the former Mary Ethel Burns (a niece of J. Pierpont Morgan and granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan). Through her, the family acquired the famous 'Harcourt emeralds'. Together, they were the parents of two sons:
  Hon. John Francis Harcourt Baring (b. 1928), who married Susan Mary Renwick, a daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick. They divorced in 1984 and he remarried to Sarah Cornelia Spencer-Churchill, a daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, a grandniece of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
  Hon. Robin Alexander Baring (b. 1931), who married Anne Caroline Thalia Gage (b. 1931), eldest daughter of the High Sheriff of Shropshire, Maj. Edward F. P. Gage of Chateau de Combecave, in 1960.
  Ashburton and his family lived in Hampshire, where he was active in public life, and later as Lord Lieutenant of the county.
  He died in 1991, leaving two sons. The title passed to his elder son, John. Since his death, his Garter banner has been on display at Winchester Cathedral.
caption: Garter-encircled arms of Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton, KG, as displayed on his Order of the Garter stall plate in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle - viz. Azure a fess or, in chief a bear's head couped at the shoulder proper, muzzled and ringed or.
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