Bryan Benson was
Governor of the Bank of England
The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent grooming their successor. The governor of the Ba ...
from 1735 to 1737. He had been
Deputy Governor from 1733 to 1735. He replaced
Horatio Townshend
Horatio Townshend (c. 1683–1751) was an English banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1734.
Townshend was the son of Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend and his second wife Mary Ashe, daughter of Sir Joseph ...
as Governor and was succeeded by
Thomas Cooke.
''Governors of the Bank of England''.
Bank of England, London, 2013
Archived here.
Retrieved 29 January 2016.
See also
*Chief Cashier of the Bank of England
The Chief Cashier of the Bank of England is the person responsible for issuing banknotes at the Bank of England and is the director of the divisions which provide the Bank of England's banking infrastructure. This person is known to the general ...
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