Hugo Baring was one of Winston Churchill’s brother officers in the 4th Hussars in India in the late 1890s. Born on 6 October 1876, Baring was the sixth son of Edward Charles Baring, the first Baron Revelstoke, a merchant banker. He attended Eton and Sandhurst before being gazetted to the 4th Hussars in 1896 where he became friends with Churchill. When the regiment was sent to India in 1896, Baring sailed along with Churchill and other officers aboard the S.S. Britannia. Upon reaching their post at Bangalore, a military cantonment in the Madras Presidency, Baring, Reginald Barnes, and Churchill pooled their resources so that they could live in a “palatial bungalow.” Shortly after their arrival in India, over Christmas 1896, Baring and Churchill visited Calcutta together. Baring served in the Tirah campaign of 1896-97 and in 1897 was appointed to the Viceroy’s staff at Simla. Leaving the army in 1899, Baring rejoined almost immediately to serve with the 17th Lancers in the South African War. After suffering a severe wound, he retired from the army for a second time and began a career in banking. He married Lady Evelyn Harriet Ashley in 1905 and had one son who died in the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. A success in business, Baring during his long career was a member of the London Committee of the National Bank of Egypt and a director of Parr’s Bank, the London and River Plate Bank, and the Westminster Bank. He also pursued business in Paris and America. Baring joined the army for a third time at the start of the First World War. He was gazetted a captain in the 10th Hussars in September 1914. Serving on the Western Front, Baring was wounded at Ypres. After recovering from his wound he spent the rest of the war in staff appointments. Promoted to Major in 1918, he was sent to Siberia as part of the British Mission. Returning from Russia the next year he left the army for the final time and returned to banking. Baring remained friends with Churchill as they corresponded and occasionally saw each other, including at the Old Comrades dinners of their regiment. Baring died on 22 August 1949 at Sleightholme Dale, Fadmoor, York.