Peter Urbanus Sartoris (alias Pierre-Urbain Sartoris in French or Urbain Sartoris) was a Swiss banker, born around 1767 in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

, who died in

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November 30, 1833. He had offices in London and

Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Sceaux () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004. A wealthy city Sceaux is famous for the Château de Sceaux, s ...

as well.

Biography

The son of a Huguenot banker, Jean-Jacques Sartoris, and Anne Greffuhle (aunt of

Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe Count Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (May 21, 1774 – February 23, 1820) was a French banker and politician. He was the founder of a bank called Greffulhe Montz et Cie. He served as a member of the Chamber of Peers from 1814 to 1820. References ...

), he used to live in Gloucester Place close to

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, and married 1813 Hester Matilda Tunno, daughter of the Scottish banker John Tunno (1746-1819) and sister of

Edward Rose Tunno Edward Rose Tunno (1794–1863) was a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Bossiney, Cornwall, 1826–1832. He had homes at Llangennech, near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales; Boverton Castle, Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire, Wal ...

. They had six children including a son, the British statesman

Edward John Sartoris Edward John Sartoris (30 May 1814 – 23 November 1888) was a British landowner and Liberal politician of French ancestry. Early life The eldest son of Peter Urban Sartoris (1767-1833) of Sceaux, near Paris and his wife Matilda, the daughter o ...

, and a daughter who later married Louis Victor Arthur des Acres de l'Aigle. Shortly after 1818, he acted as

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of the

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in the

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, then was succeeded by Alexandre Prévost Prévost wrote of him : 'He rbain Sartorishad 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'. During the

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, Sartoris invested millions of

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s in inland waterways, lived by then in his manor at Sceaux. He bought the estates of la Garenne de Colombes, which his inheritors sold by pieces around 1865.

Family

Peter and Hester Sartoris had six children: * Jean-Édouard, (1814 - 1888), also known as

* Henriette-Élisa, b. 13 August 1815 * Frédéric-Urbain, b. 21 January 1820, also known as Frederic Urban Sartoris,

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in 1855 * Charles-Urbain, b. 14 October 1825 * Alfred Urbain, b. 16 December 1826 - 1909"Alfred Urbain Sartoris (1826-1909), Army officer and magistrate"
National Portrait Gallery. * Jules-Alexandre, b. 22 October 1831 - 1863 Dublin

References

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