Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, KG, GCMG, KCVO (29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973) was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944 and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. His governorship of Kenya was marked by the Mau Mau uprising.
Born to the wealthy Baring banking family and a younger son of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, the first British ruler of Egypt, Baring was created 1st Baron Howick of Glendale in 1960 and a Knigh...
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Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, KG, GCMG, KCVO (29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973) was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944 and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. His governorship of Kenya was marked by the Mau Mau uprising.
Born to the wealthy Baring banking family and a younger son of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, the first British ruler of Egypt, Baring was created 1st Baron Howick of Glendale in 1960 and a Knight of the Garter in 1972. He married, in 1935, Mary Cecil Grey, who was the daughter of Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey. She inherited the 18th-century mansion Howick Hall from her father, thus providing the source of Baring's eventual title.
In June, 1957, Sir Evelyn passed on to Alan Lennox-Boyd a secret memorandum written by Eric Griffiths-Jones, the attorney general of Kenya. The memorandum described the abuse of Mau Mau detainees. The paper alleges that Sir Evelyn supplied a covering letter that asserted that inflicting "violent shock" was the...
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