| Description | Contains: newspaper advert entitled 'To the Independent Proprietors of the Capital of the Bank of England' by W Pickett (1789); a printed booklet entitled 'Huguenot Directors of the Bank of England' by W Marston Acres (1935); two reprints entitled 'Directors of the Bank of England' that give biographical information on Directors, 1694 - 1930s, reprinted from a publication entitled Notes and Queries (1940 and 1951); a list of Governors and their dates of death and where buried, 1705 - 1944 (1961); anecdotes on Governors: Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Sir Nathaniel Gould, Daniel Giles, Sir John Henry Pelly, John Benjamin Heath, Lord Montagu Norman (1965); brief biographies on: Peter Gaussen; Peter Isaac Thellusson; William Haldimand; James Morris; Sir Augustus Prevost (1965); notes on the extent of Governor's diaries of Lord Catto, Lord Cobbold, Lord Cromer and Lord Cunliffe (1967). |