Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Lord, second son of Sir Francis Baring, a Liberal politician, turned Conservative, member of Peel's administration in 1834-35, sent special ambassador to the United States in 1842; concluded the boundary treaty of Washington, known as the Ashburton Treaty; in his retirement “a really good, solid, most cheery, sagacious, simple-hearted old man” (1774‒1848).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ashburnham, 5th Earl of * Ashburton, William Bingham Baring