Albert George Sandeman Vanity Fair 1895-09-12

Albert George Sandeman (21 October 1833 – 6 January 1923) was an English businessman and the 100th

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. He was born the eldest of the nine children of George Glas Sandeman, head of the Sandeman wine importing company, and his wife Elizabeth Forster. He entered the family business at the age of 16 and at 20 was sent to work at the

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office in Portugal. He later became a director of the London Dock Company and in 1866 a director of the

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. He was appointed

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for 1872–73. On his father's death in 1888 he became chairman of the family business of Geo. G. Sandeman & Sons Ltd. In 1894 he was made

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, becoming Governor the following year until 1897. He also served as a Commissioner of Income Tax for the City of London and as President of the London Chamber of Commerce (1898). Sandeman's tenure as Governor occurred during the Panics of 1893 and

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. He died in 1923 at his home, "Greylands", in Bexhill, Sussex. He had married Maria Carlota Perpetua de Moraes Sarmento in Portugal in 1895 and with her had at least six children, including at least two sons and four daughters.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandeman, Albert George 1833 births 1923 deaths British merchants Deputy Governors of the Bank of England Governors of the Bank of England High Sheriffs of Surrey