Peter Urban Sartoris

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Peter Urbanus Sartoris (alias Pierre-Urbain Sartoris in French[1] or Urbain Sartoris[2]) was a Swiss banker, born around 1767 in Geneva[citation needed], who died in Paris November 30, 1833. He had offices in London and Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine as well.

Biography[]

The son of a Huguenot banker, Jean-Jacques Sartoris, and Anne Greffuhle (aunt of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe), he used to live in Gloucester Place[3] close to Regent's Park, and married 1813 Hester Matilda Tunno, daughter of the Scottish banker John Tunno (1746-1819) and sister of Edward Rose Tunno. They had six children including a son, the British statesman Edward John Sartoris, and a daughter who later married Louis Victor Arthur des Acres de l'Aigle.[4]

Shortly after 1818, he acted as first consul of the Swiss Confederacy in the United Kingdom, then was succeeded by Alexandre Prévost[5][6] Prévost wrote of him : 'He [Urbain Sartoris] had both good fortune and ambition, or rather self-pride. Thanks to his diplomatic charge, he thought he could fling open the gates of high society for himself; yet no sooner had he passed the line he had been craving for, did he stop caring for a second-order office, which he openly declared to me, offering me to be introduced as his successor'.[7]

During the French Restoration, Sartoris invested millions of francs in inland waterways, lived by then in his manor at Sceaux.[8] He bought the estates of la Garenne de Colombes, which his inheritors sold by pieces around 1865.[9]

Family[]

Peter and Hester Sartoris had six children:[10]

  • Jean-Édouard, (1814 - 1888), also known as Edward John Sartoris
  • Henriette-Élisa, b. 13 August 1815
  • Frédéric-Urbain, b. 21 January 1820, also known as Frederic Urban Sartoris, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1855
  • Charles-Urbain, b. 14 October 1825
  • Alfred Urbain, b. 16 December 1826 - 1909[11]
  • Jules-Alexandre, b. 22 October 1831 - 1863 Dublin

References[]

  1. ^ William Calverley Curteis, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons, Saunders and Benning, 1840, p. 910
  2. ^ Compte général de l'administration des finances, Ministère de l'économie et des finances, 1838.
  3. ^ The Monthly Magazine, 1813, Volume 35, p. 455.
  4. ^ Histoire des rues de La Garenne-Colombes, 2010, p. 10.
  5. ^ "Société Suisse de Généalogie Familiale Sartoris".
  6. ^ Olivier Perroux, Tradition, vocation et progrès : les élites bourgeoises de Genève (1814-1914), p. 175.
  7. ^ Geneva State Archives, Journal d'Alexandre Prévost, MS Fr. 4756, p. 26.
  8. ^ Rapport au Roi sur la situation des canaux (1831).
  9. ^ "Histoire de la commune de La Garenne-Colombes". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  10. ^ Bulletin des lois de la Republique Francaise (1835), No. 139, p. 671. (In French)
  11. ^ "Alfred Urbain Sartoris (1826-1909), Army officer and magistrate". National Portrait Gallery.
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