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Ashburton was named by the surveyor Captain Joseph Thomas of the New Zealand Land Association, after Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, who was a member of the Canterbury Association.
It is named in honor of Sir Francis Baring, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Sir Francis Baring, chairman of the East India Company, was quick to see the danger.
He met John Robert Godley on 24 November 1849 to discuss educational matters for the proposed settlement in Canterbury, New Zealand, and gave £600 for education as a memorial to Charles Buller, who had died in the previous year.
In 1800 Henry Hope became influential together with his London friend Francis Baring in financing the Louisiana Purchase.