| Code | DS/UK/274 |
| Surname | Rippon |
| Forenames | Thomas |
| Dates | 1760 - 1835 |
| Epithet | Chief Cashier (1829 - 1835) |
| Activity | Born on 1 August 1760 in Tiverton, the son of a Baptist minister, Rippon joined the Bank in 1782 and went on to become Chief Cashier in 1829, at age 70. During over fifty years' service he took but one holiday, which he shortened to three days because he found ‘the ennui of an idle life, and the want of his usual occupation’ depressing and claimed that ‘green fields and country scenery had no charm for him’. Rippon had quarters in the Bank from 1807 until his death on 13 August 1835. Thrifty and cautious, he had amassed £60,000 by the time of his death. |
| Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
W. Marston Acres 'The Bank of England from Within 1694-1900' (London, 1931) pp374-375 |
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