List of directors of the Bank of England
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- Robert ClaytonRobert ClaytonSir Robert Clayton was a British merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London.Robert Clayton was born in Northamptonshire, England. He became an apprentice to his uncle, a London scrivener, where he met a fellow apprentice, Alderman John Morris...
(1702 - 1707) - Gustavus BranderGustavus BranderGustavus Brander , English naturalist, who came of a Swedish family, was born in London in 1720, and was brought up as a merchant, in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the Bank of England....
- Samuel Beechcroft
- Thomas Matthias WeguelinThomas Matthias WeguelinThomas Matthias Weguelin was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1857 and 1880....
(1838 - 1853) - George GoschenGeorge GoschenGeorge Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen was a British statesman and businessman best remembered for being "forgotten" by Lord Randolph Churchill...
(1856 - ) - Christopher Weguelin (1867 - 1880)
- Alfred de RothschildAlfred de RothschildAlfred Charles de Rothschild was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Baroness Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Rothschild family....
(1869 - 1889) - Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1879 - 1891)
- John Baring, 2nd Baron RevelstokeJohn Baring, 2nd Baron RevelstokeJohn Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke PC , was senior partner of Barings Bank from the 1890s until his death. John was the eldest surviving son of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, and a great-grandson of the firm’s founder, Sir Francis Baring.-Career at Barings:At the age of twenty, John left...
(1898 - 1909) - Edward Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St JustEdward Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St JustEdward Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just , was a British banker and politician.His father, Henry Riversdale Grenfell, was Governor of the Bank of England between 1881 and 1883. William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, was his first cousin.In 1904 Grenfell became a partner in the firm of J. S....
(1905 - 1940) - James PitmanJames PitmanSir James Pitman, KBE was a British businessman, civil servant, publisher, politician and spelling reformer.Sir James was vitally concerned with the teaching of children to write the English language...
- Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron StampJosiah Stamp, 1st Baron StampJosiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Josiah was born in London, the third of seven...
(1928 - 1941) - Andrew Duncan (1929 - 1940)
- Lord Hyndley of Meads (1931 - 1945)
- William Henry CleggWilliam Henry CleggWilliam Henry Clegg was the first Governor of the South African Reserve Bank from 17 December 1920 until 31 December 1931. His successor was Johannes Postmus.-References:...
(1932 - 1937) - Patrick Ashley Cooper (1932 - 1955)
- Edward Holland-Martin (1933 - 1948)
- Basil Gage Catterns (1934 - 1948)
- James George Weir (1935 - 1946)
- Dallas Gerald Mercer Bernard (1936 - 1949)
- Robert Molesworth Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley
- Otto NiemeyerOtto NiemeyerSir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, GBE, KCB was financial controller at the Treasury and a director at the Bank of England. He was also treasurer of the National Association of Mental Health post World War II...
(1938 - 1952) - John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
(1941 - 1946) - Josiah Wedgwood VJosiah Wedgwood VJosiah Wedgwood V was the Managing Director of the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with turning the company's fortunes around....
(1942 - 1946) - William Piercy, 1st Baron PiercyWilliam Piercy, 1st Baron PiercyWilliam Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy CBE , was a British economist, civil servant, businessman and financier. He is best remembered as Chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corporation from 1945 to 1964.-Early life:...
(1946 - 1960) - Eric RollEric RollEric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden CB KCMG was an academic economist, public servant and banker. He was made a life peer in 1977....
(1968 - 1977) - Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of WoldinghamAlfred Robens, Baron Robens of WoldinghamAlfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham CBE PC was an English trade unionist, Labour politician and industrialist...
(1966 - ) - Alastair PilkingtonAlastair PilkingtonLionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, and his associate Kenneth Bickerstaff, both of Great Britain, developed the world's first commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass using their float glass process...
- Adrian CadburyAdrian CadburySir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury is a former British Olympic rower and Chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years. He has been a pioneer in raising the awareness and stimulating the debate on corporate governance and produced the Cadbury Report, a code of best practice which served...
(1970 - 1994) - Andrew Crockett(1989 - 1993)
- John Baring, 7th Baron AshburtonJohn Baring, 7th Baron AshburtonJohn Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, is a British merchant banker and former chairman of British Petroleum...
(1993 - 1991) - David ClementiDavid ClementiSir David Cecil Clementi is a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Clementi also holds positions on the boards of several large corporations, including Chairman of Prudential plc, one of Britain's largest insurance companies, and is a non-executive director on the board of governors of...
(1996 - 1997) - Bill MorrisBill MorrisWilliam Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, OJ , generally known as Bill Morris, was general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, and the first black leader of a British trade union....
(1998 - ) - Peter JayPeter JayPeter Jay is a British economist, broadcaster and diplomat.-Background:Peter Jay is the son of Douglas and Peggy Jay, both of whom were Labour Party politicians...
(2003 - )