Maude Louise Baring (née Lorillard, formerly Tailer; August 22, 1876 – April 2, 1922) was an American heiress who married into the British Baring banking family.
Early life
Maude was born on August 22, 1873, in Manhattan. She was the youngest daughter of Pierre Lorillard IV (1833–1901) and Emily (née Taylor) Lorillard (1840–1925).
Her paternal grandparents were Catherine (née Griswold) Lorillard and Pierre Lorillard III of the Lorillard Tobacco Company. Among her large extended family were aunts Mary Lorillard Barbey, Catherine Lorillard Kernochan, Eva Lorillard Kip and uncles Louis Lasher Lorillard and George L. Lorillard, who was also a prominent thoroughbred racehorse owner like her father. Her maternal grandparents were Isaac Ebenezer Taylor and Eliza Mary (née Mollan) Taylor.
Personal life
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On April 15, 1893, she was married to Thomas Suffern Tailer (1866–1928) by the Rev. Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee at Calvary Church in New York City in what was considered "by far the most fashionable Easter season wedding" of the year. Suffern, as he was known, a son of Edward Neufville Tailer and Agnes (née Suffern) Tailer Before their divorce, they were the parents of:
- Lorillard Suffern Tailer (1897–1979), a polo player who married Catherine Harding (1900–1990), daughter of J. Horace Harding and granddaughter of Charles D. Barney, founder of the New York investment firm of Charles D. Barney & Co. (predecessor firm to Smith, Barney & Co.). They divorced, and he later married Esther Virginia Garlow (1918–1993).
While married to Tailer, she met the Hon. Cecil Baring, a British banker who was working in New York at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and was a business partner of her husband. The Tailer divorce, and subsequent marriage, between Maude and Cecil in London in 1902, led to Baring's resignation from the American bank. Cecil was the third, but second surviving, son of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, and his sister Margaret was married to Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer. In 1911, they returned to London and he was elected a director of the family firm, Baring Brothers and Co., later becoming head of the firm. Together, they were the parents of:
- Hon. Daphne Baring (1904–1986), who married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of Arthur Pollen and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920. They were the parents of Patrick Pollen.
- Hon. Calypso Baring (1905–1974), who married Guy Maynard Liddell, third son of Capt. Augustus Frederick Liddell, Comptroller and Treasurer to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (husband of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom) in 1926. They divorced in 1943.
- Rupert Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke (1911–1994), who married Hon. Florence Flora Fermor-Hesketh, second daughter of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh and the former Florence Louisa Breckinridge (a daughter of John Witherspoon Breckinridge of San Francisco). They divorced in 1944 and she married Lt.-Cmdr. Derek Lawson of Passenham Manor.
Maude died on April 2, 1922, at Marylebone in London. She was buried at Lambay Island in Ireland. Her husband succeeded his unmarried elder brother John in 1929 and became the 3rd Baron Revelstoke. Upon his death in 1934, their only son, Rupert, succeeded to the barony.
References
- Notes
- Her first husband remarried to Harriet Stewart Brown (1884–1953), a daughter of Alexander Brown and Bessie (née Montague) Brown (a first cousin of Wallis Simpson's mother), in 1909. After Tailer's death in 1928, Harriet married the investment banker and yachtsman C. Ledyard Blair.
- Sources
- "PIERRE LORILLARD DEAD; Famous in Society, in Commerce, and in the World of Sport. First American to Win the English Derby -- Other Triumphs on the Turf in Both Hemispheres". The New York Times. 8 July 1901. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- "MRS. PIERRE LORILLARD DIES IN MONROE HOME; Widow of. Tobacco Capitalist and Sportsman to Be Buried From Grace Church Chantry". The New York Times. 12 September 1925. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- The World Almanac and Encyclopedia. Press Publishing Company, (The New York World). 1905. p. 330. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- "WEDDED BEFORE MANY FRIENDS; MISS MAUD LORILLARD BECOMES MRS. T. SUFFERN TAILER. Dr. Satterlee Performs a Simple Ceremony in Calvary Church -- Wedding Breakfast at the Lorillard Residence -- Showered with Rice as They left the House -- One Hundred Thousand Dollars' Worth of Presents -- To Spend a Few Months at the World's Fair and Then to go Abroad". The New York Times. 16 April 1893. p. 10. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- "MISS HARDING WEDS L. SUFFERN TAILER; Granddaughter of the Late C.D. Barney Is a Bride at St. Bartholomew's. CAPT. MATHIS WEDS HERE Aviator and Miss MacConnell Are Married in Church of Transfiguration--Miss Katz a Bride". The New York Times. 7 April 1921. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "SEPARATION REPORTED OF SUFFERN TAILERS; Wife Probably Will Ask Divorce, His Secretary Says in Washington". The New York Times. 5 November 1933. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- "C. LEDYARD BLAIR; Co-Founder of Blair & Co. Here Was Yachtsman and Former- Stock Exchange Governor" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 February 1949. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- "MRS. M.L. TAILER'S WEDDING.; Will Be, or Has Become, the Bride of the Hon. Cecil Baring, in London, It Is Said". The New York Times. 10 November 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ "Obituary: Lord Revelstoke". The Independent. 20 July 1994. Archived from the original on 2022-05-12. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "LORD REVELSTOKE DIES IN LONDON, 69; Head of Baring Bros. & Co., Banking House, Succeeded to Title in 1929. ONCE WAS RESIDENT HERE His Widow Was Former Maude Lorillard, Daughter of the Late Pierre Lorillard". The New York Times. 26 January 1934. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "Revelstoke, Baron (UK, 1885)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- "Obituary 2". The New York Times. 4 April 1922. Retrieved 28 February 2017.