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Governor Of The Bank Of England
The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent choosing and mentoring a successor. The governor of the Bank of England is also chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee (United Kingdom), Monetary Policy Committee, with a major role in guiding national economic and monetary policy, and is therefore one of the most important public officials in the United Kingdom. According to the original charter of 27 July 1694 the bank's affairs would be supervised by a governor, a deputy governor, and 24 directors. In its current incarnation, the bank's Bank of England#Court of Directors, Court of Directors has 12 (or up to 14) members, of whom five are various designated executives of the bank. The 121st and current governor is Andrew Bailey (banker), Andrew Bailey, who began his term in March 2020. List of Governors of the Bank of England (169 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. As banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional-reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but, in many ways, functioned as a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots in the ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Gould (1661–1728)
Sir Nathaniel Gould (3 December 1661 – 21 July 1728) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1701 to 1707 and in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1707 and 1728. Gould owned shipbuilding yards in Shoreham and also contributed to the rebuilding of the market house at Shoreham. He was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham in 1701 when he was unseated for bribery (having handed out a guinea a man) and then re-elected. He held the seat until May 1708 and was re-elected in 1710. This time he retained the seat until his death in 1728 although his elections often gave rise to petitions on the grounds of bribery or intimidation. Gould was also Governor of the Bank of England from 1711 to 1713 at the time when the South Sea Company was founded. He had earlier served as its Deputy Governor. He was knighted in 1721. Gould married Frances, daughter of Sir John Hartopp, 3rd Baronet and granddaughter of Charles Fleetw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delillers Carbonnel
Delillers Carbonnel (November 1669 – 4 May 1747) was an English banker who was Governor of the Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent choosing and mentoring a successor. The governor ... from 1740 to 1741. He was born in London, the son of Gillaume Carbonnel, a French Huguenot merchant, and Elizabeth de Lillers. He was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1738 to 1740, when he replaced Thomas Cooke as governor, being succeeded in 1741 by Stamp Brooksbank. Bank of England, London, 2013 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cooke (banker)
Thomas Cooke (died 1752) was an English merchant and banker. He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1737 to 1740. He had been Deputy Governor from 1735 to 1737. He replaced Bryan Benson as Governor and was succeeded by Delillers Carbonnel. He married a daughter of Nathaniel Gould (1661–1728), merchant, politician, ship-builder and also Governor of the Bank of England from 1711 to 1713 at the time when the South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially: The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and for the encouragement of the Fishery) was a British joint-stock company founded in Ja ... was founded., and Frances, daughter of Sir John Hartopp, 3rd Baronet and granddaughter of Charles Fleetwood. See also * Chief Cashier of the Bank of England References External links Governors of the Bank of England Year of birth missing 1752 deaths British bankers Deputy governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Benson
Bryan Benson was Governor of the Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent choosing and mentoring a successor. The governor ... from 1735 to 1737. He had been Deputy Governor from 1733 to 1735. He replaced Horatio Townshend as Governor and was succeeded by Thomas Cooke. Bank of England, London, 2013 Archived here. Retrieved 29 January 2016. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horatio Townshend
Horatio Townshend (c. 1683 – 4 October 1751) was an English banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1734. Townshend was the son of Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend and his second wife Mary Ashe, daughter of Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Eton College. Townshend was Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth from 1715 to 1722, in which year he became a director of the Bank of England. He was then Member of Parliament for Heytesbury from 1727 to 1734. Townshend was Governor of the Bank of England from 1733 to 1735. He had been Deputy Governor from 1732 to 1733. He replaced Edward Bellamy as Governor and was succeeded by Bryan Benson Bryan Benson was Governor of the Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumb .... He was a Commissioner of the Victuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bellamy (banker)
Sir Edward Bellamy (died 1749) was a London banker who was Lord Mayor of London and Governor of the Bank of England He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and an Alderman of the city from 1723. He was elected Sheriff of London for 1723–24 and Lord Mayor for 1734–35. He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1723 to 1726 and from 1727 to 1729, serving as Deputy Governor from 1729 to 1731 and as Governor from 1731 to 1733. He replaced Samuel Holden as Governor and was succeeded by Horatio Townshend. Bank of England, London, 2013 Archived here. Retrieved 29 January 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden (1675–1740) was an English merchant, politician, and nonconformist activist. Life The son of Joseph Holden by his second wife Priscilla Watt, he was employed when still young by the Russia Company at Riga. He became a successful merchant in London, a director of the Bank of England (1720–27 and 1731–40), its Deputy Governor (1727–29) and its Governor (1729–31). A Dissenter, Holden chaired from 1732 a committee for the repeal of the Corporation Act and other Test Acts. He entered Parliament as Member for East Looe in 1735. Undertakings by Sir Robert Walpole not to obstruct actively moves for repeal turned out to be largely irrelevant when Holden tried to introduce legislation in the area. He resigned from the committee in 1736, forced out in favour of Benjamin Avery. He married Jane Whitehalgh of the Whitehaugh, Instones, Staffordshire, with whom he had a son and 3 daughters. In 1744 his daughter and co-heir Mary married John Jolliffe, the MP for Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphry Morice (Governor Of The Bank Of England)
Humphry Morice ( – 16 November 1731) was an English merchant, politician and slave trader who served as the governor of the Bank of England. He inherited his father's trading business around the age of eighteen, and learned finance and speculation from an uncle. Placed in Parliament through a cousin's interest in 1713, his Whig politics ultimately provoked a breach with his Tory cousin, and he had to be given another seat in 1722 by Robert Walpole's administration. He rose to be Deputy Governor and then Governor of the Bank of England in 1727, but unknown to his contemporaries, his fortune was largely fictitious and he was embezzling from the Bank and his daughters' trust fund. He died suddenly in 1731, perhaps having poisoned himself to forestall the discovery of his frauds, and left behind enormous debts. Antecedents and trade Humphry was the only son of Humphry Morice (c. 1640–1696), a London merchant trading extensively in Africa, America, Holland and Russia, and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thompson (banker)
William Thompson was Governor of the Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent choosing and mentoring a successor. The governor ... from 1725 to 1727. He had been Deputy Governor from 1723 to 1725. He replaced Gilbert Heathcote as Governor and was succeeded by Humphry Morice. Bank of England, London, 2013 Archived here. Retrieved 29 January 2016. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Scawen
Sir Thomas Scawen (c. 1650 – 22 September 1730) was a British merchant, financier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722. He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1721 to 1723. Early life Scawen was a younger son of Robert Scawen of Horton, Buckinghamshire and his wife Catherine Alsop, daughter of Cavendish Alsop, merchant of London. He married Martha Wessell, the daughter of Abraham Wessell, a London merchant, on 8 September 1691. Career Like his brother William, Scawen was a successful London merchant. He was an Apprentice of the Fishmongers’ Company in 1671, a freeman in 1679, and a liveryman in 1685. In 1699 he was a member of the Russia Company. He was an assistant at the Fishmonger's Company in 1704 and was a director of the Bank of England from 1705 to 1719. At the 1708 British general election he was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Grampound. He was also Prime Warden of the Fishmongers’ Company from 1708 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hanger (banker)
John Hanger ( – 1733) was a merchant of Trinity Minories who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1719 to 1721 when the Bank of England was closely involved in the financing of the South Sea Company. His family were closely associated with the hundred of Bray in Berkshire and a memorial to the family exists in St Michael's Church there. Early life and family John Hanger was born around 1656. His family were associated with the hundred of Bray."Coats of Arms in Berkshire Churches" by P. S. Spokes, ''Berkshire Archaeological Journal'', Berkshire Archaeological Society, Journal 43: 1939, pp. 117–132 (p. 122). via Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
