Peter Gaussen
Peter Gaussen (1723–1788)[1] was Governor of the Bank of England from 1777 to 1779.
He was born Jean-Pierre Gaussen in Geneva, the son of Paul Gaussen, a French Huguenot, and moved to London in 1739.[2]
He was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1776 to 1777. He replaced Samuel Beachcroft as governor in 1777 (in doing so he became the first foreign-born governor of the Bank of England)[3] and was succeeded in turn by Daniel Booth in 1779.[4] Gaussen's tenure as Governor occurred during the Bengal bubble crash (1769–1784).
In 1755 he had married his second cousin Anna Bosanquet, the daughter of Samuel Bosanquet.[2] Their third-born (but first surviving) son, Samuel Robert Gaussen (1759–1812) was MP for Warwick (1796–1802)[3] and a collector of the works of prominent landscape painter Paul Sandby.[5] Peter bought Brookmans Manor in Hertfordshire as a gift for Samuel in 1786.[1]
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- ^ a b Finn, Margot and Kate Smith eds (2018). The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857. London: UCL Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-78735-028-1.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - ^ a b Higonnet, Patrice. Favourites of Fortune. p. 258.
- ^ a b "GAUSSEN, Samuel Robert (1759-1812), of 3 Mansfield Street, Mdx. and Brookmans Park, North Mimms, Herts. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ^ Governors of the Bank of England. Bank of England, London, 2013. Archived here. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "HG :: Hamilton Art Gallery". www.hamiltongallery.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
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