Rosa Baring
British aristocrat
Rosa Frederica FitzGeorge (née Baring, formerly Arkwright; 9 March 1854 – 10 March 1927) was an English socialite.
Origin
Rosa was born on 9 March 1854 at Norman Court in West Tytherley, Hampshire, England. She was the second daughter of William Henry Baring, JP and Elizabeth Hammersley. Her elder brother, Francis Charles Baring, married Isabella Augusta Schuster (a granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Orkney), and her younger brother, William Bingham Baring, married Georgina Margaret Campbell (daughter of Charles Hallyburton Campbell).
Her paternal grandparents were William Baring (a younger son of the famous Sir Francis Baring of the Barings Bank) and Frances (née Poulett-Thomson) Baring. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Hammersley and Emily (née Poulett-Thomson) Hammersley, and her uncle was Thomas Weguelin, partner of Thomson, Bonar, and Company of London, Director and Governor of the Bank of England. Her grandmothers were sisters, both being daughters of London merchant John Buncombe Poulett-Thomson of Waverley Abbey House, and sisters to Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham.
Personal life
Rosa married twice and, reportedly, was not friendly with the families of either of her two husbands.
First marriage
On 29 August 1878, she was married to Capt. Frank Wigsell Arkwright at Sanderstead, Surrey Court, England.
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