As described in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

BARING. The peer and the baronet descend from John Baring of Devonshire, Esq., (XVIII. cent.) son of John Baring, minister of the Lutheran church at Bremen, in Saxony, Avliose ancestors had been either municipal officers or Lutheran ministers of that city from the time of the Reformation. Courthope's Debrett. The name is possibly identical Avith that of Behring, the eminent navigator.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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