Sarah Baring

Sarah Baring
Sarah Baring as a debutante, aged 18
Born
Hon. Sarah Kathleen Elinor Norton

20 January 1920
Died4 February 2013(2013-02-04) (aged 93)
Occupation(s)Socialite, wartime linguist
Spouses
(m. 1945; div. 1953)
Lt-Col Thomas Baring
(m. 1953; div. 1965)
ChildrenWilliam Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
Parent(s)Richard Norton, 6th Baron Grantley
Jean Mary Kinloch

Sarah Kathleen Elinor Baring (née Norton; 20 January 1920 – 4 February 2013) was an English socialite and memoirist, who worked for three years as a linguist at Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. She was married to William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, from 1945 to 1953.