Doris Mary Thérèse Baring

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Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt (30 March 1900 – 1981) was an English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things.

Biography

Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt was born on 30 March 1900, the daughter of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt and Mary Ethel Burns. Mary Burns was the daughter of Walter Hayes Burns and Mary Lyman Morgan, sister of J.P. Morgan. At 18 months they found that Doris Harcourt had a weak leg and she was subjected to electric shock treatment and steel supports were put in her boots.

On 17 November 1924 she married Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton; their elder son John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton succeeded as 7th Baron Ashburton. Another son is: Hon. Robin Alexander Baring (b. 1931).

Through her marriage, the Baring family acquired the famous 'Harcourt emeralds'.

She died in 1981.