Plans to honor a war hero were canceled – because his ancestors made money from slaves.
Brigadier General Everard Baring himself had no direct connection with slavery.
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John, Cecil and Everard Baring by James Sant (1872)
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Portrait of Sir Francis Baring – Great Grandfather of Everard
However, plans to designate a cycle and footpath as the “Everard Way” were discarded after research showed that his great-grandfather – the merchant banker Sir Francis Baring – established the family fortune of slaves.
Everard – whose sister Margaret was Princess Diana’s great-grandmother – risked his life helping North Africans before leading a brigade in World War I.
He was part of the Nile expedition to evacuate Egyptians from Sudan and was mentioned twice in dispatches. Everard died in 1932 at the age of 66.
He was to be honored in Kingston upon Thames in southwest London – his old hometown.
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The new traffic-free route connecting Kingston-Upon Thames to Merton
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Kingston Council said Everard Way was proposed and “objected to and withdrawn as part of the internal process.” A new name was not chosen.
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