John Masterman (1781 – 23 January 1862) was a banker, director and British Conservative Party politician. Masterman worked for the firm and became a board member of Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Company, London bankers. He was also a Director of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

, and later was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of London. He was elected at the 1841 general election as one of the four Members of Parliament (MPs) for the

City of London The City of London, also known as ''the City'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county and Districts of England, local government district with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in England. It is the Old town, his ...

. He was re-elected in

1847 Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Fr� ...

and

1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come to ...

, and held the seat until he stood down from the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

at the 1857 general election. A traditional Tory Anglican, he was "prepared to resist any concessions to Popery", he represented the City during the Victorian financial revolution spurred on by big capitalist fortunes and the founding of Sir

Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–183 ...

's new party. He bought a large mansion townhouse at 35 Nicholas Lane, off Lombard Street in the heart of the financial district. In the Essex countryside, he purchased a wooded retreat at Knot's Green in leafy Leyton (now in the east end of Greater London). Masterman took the

Chiltern Hundreds The Chiltern Hundreds is an ancient administrative area in Buckinghamshire, England, composed of three hundred (county division), ancient hundreds and lying partially within the Chiltern Hills. "Taking the Chiltern Hundreds" refers to one of the ...

in 1857, and died on 23 January 1862. The

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

awarded Masterman a Doctorate of Civil Laws on 5 July 1848.

References

External links

* 1781 births 1862 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1780s-stub