Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton

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Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton

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association with policies of Peel

In Robert Peel: Prime minister and Conservative leader
…settled by the mission of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, in 1842 and the Oregon treaty of 1846. The same combination of firmness and conciliation was followed in Ireland. Once the threatening campaign for repeal of the union had been brought to a halt in 1843 with O’Connell’s trial for…
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leadership of Baring Brothers and Company

In Baring family
…passed to his second son, Alexander Baring, afterward 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), who married Anne Bingham, a member of one of the wealthiest families in Pennsylvania, and who secured for Baring Brothers the leadership (until the American Civil War, 1861–65) in financing U.S. foreign trade and selling U.S. bonds. As…
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