 A good all-rounder, he was also able to ride a unicycle.He married firstly, on 25 May 1935, Mona Montgomerie Mullins, the daughter of Colonel Willoughby Brooking Mullins of Ambersham House, Midhurst, Sussex, and they had one daughter, Claire Leonora Baring, born 29 February 1936 and died 4 August, 2019, who was married to (and then divorced from) the Hon.Peter Alistair Ward (a son of the 3rd Earl of Dudley).