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--- "Report and Transactions - The Devonshire Assoication" Vol. 5, page 100:
The following particulars of the Barings are gathered from Dr. Oliver's Exonian Biographies: ---
The Rev. Dr. Francis Baring, son of John and Ann Baring, was born in Bremen, 21 January, 1656. Appointed Lutheran Pastor of St. Anascharius' Church, bremen, and died in that office 3rd November, 1697. By his wife Rebecca (Voight) he left two daughters and a posthumous son (John), born ten days after his father's death. John was slenderly provided for, but received a mercantile education, and at the age of twenty came to Exon to learn the Serge manufacture, under Edmund Cock, merchant. Was naturalized in 1723, with a proviso that he should hold no office unter the crown, nor hold lands, &c. In 1729 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Vowler, an opulent grocer, who had retired to Bellair, on the Topsham Road. Her fortune and talents assisted him in extending his mercantile transactions, and in a few years he acquired considerable property. Purchased Larkbeare House of the Lavintons (1737), the Rectory of St. Leonards for 90 pounds, Spur Barn, and other estates. Died 1748. Buried at St. Leonards.
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, d. 1748, Larkbeare, Devon