Mark Francis Robert Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 17 August 1958), known as the Honourable Mark Baring from 1991 to 2020, is a British businessman and a member of the Baring family.

Baring is the second child, and elder son, of John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton,^[1] and his first wife, Susan Renwick,^[2] daughter of Robert Renwick, 1st Baron Renwick. His parents divorced in 1984. He succeeded as Baron Ashburton on his father's death on 6 October 2020.^{[3][better source needed]}

Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns, granddaughter of Junius Spencer Morgan and niece of American banking magnate J. P. Morgan, were his great-grandparents through his paternal grandmother, Doris, Baroness Ashburton (née Harcourt).

Baring married Miranda Caroline Wright (born 1961) on 29 October 1983.^[2] They have four children:^[4]

• Aurea Rose Baring (born 1988)
• Frederick Charles Francis Baring (born 1990, heir apparent)
• Patrick Robin John Baring (born 1995)
• Flora Baring (born 1997)