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3 unusual facts about Governor of the Bank of England


Harriet Raikes

Harriet Raikes was the daughter of Thomas Raikes the Younger, a merchant and banker in London, and the granddaughter of Thomas Raikes the Elder, also merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England from 1797 to 1799.

Thomas Scawen

Sir Thomas Scawen (c.1650 – 22 September 1730) was a British MP and Governor of the Bank of England.

He was a director of the Bank of England from 1705 to 1719 and from 1723 to his death, was a Deputy Governor from 1719 to 1721 and Governor from 1721 to 1723.


Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

The effort attracted some prominent figures from London's financial elite: George Peters, Governor of the Bank of England, Thomas Boddington, the noted philanthropist and slave owner, John Julius Angerstein, General Robert Melville.


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Adam Smith College

The Adam Smith Lecture series has attracted prestigious national and international speakers including: Alan Greenspan KBE, who spoke while Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the USA; and Sir Mervyn King, Governor of The Bank of England, both of whom were introduced by The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, former Prime Minister and last Chancellor of the College.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Leigh-Pemberton

Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (born 1927), Governor of the Bank of England 1983–1993

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.