Francis Thomas Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook, is a British peer and Conservative politician. The son of Francis John Baring, 5th Baron Northbrook and Rowena Margaret Manning, Northbrook was educated at Winchester College and took a BA in History at the University of Bristol. He became a Trainee Chartered Accountant at Dixon Wilson & Co from 1976 to 1980. He then worked at Baring Brothers & Co as a Credit Analyst between 1981 and 1983. In 1983, he moved into the Asset Management side at Baring Investment Management as an Investment Analyst between 1983 and 1985. From 1985 to 1989 he was in the Private Client Department at Baring Investment Management. He then became a Senior Investment Manager at Taylor Young Investment from 1990 to 1993 and at Smith and Williamson Securities from 1993 to 1995. He was then the cofounder and Director of the award winning Mars Asset Management between 1996 and 2006. Now he is a founding Trustee of Fortune Forum. Lord Northbrook took his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1990. He is now one of the ninety two hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act of 1999. 

February 21st, 1954 in (Age 70)