Sheffield Neave (1799–1868) was an English merchant and

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 ...

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Life

He was the son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Frances Digby, daughter of William Digby, and was educated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

. He had been Deputy Governor from 1855 to 1857. He replaced

Thomas Matthias Weguelin Thomas Matthias Weguelin (5 May 1809 – 5 April 1885) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1857 and 1880. Life Weguelin was the son of William A Weguelin of Weymouth Street, Portland Place, London, who ...

as Governor and was succeeded by

Bonamy Dobrée Bonamy Dobrée (2 February 1891 – 3 September 1974), British academic, was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955. Dobrée declared himself a Channel Islander, and was rather proud that both his Bonam ...

. Neave's tenure as Governor occurred during the

Panic of 1857 The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. Because of the invention of the telegraph by Samuel F. Morse in 1844, the Panic of 1857 was ...

. In June 2020, the Bank of England issued a public apology for the involvement of Neave, amongst other employees, in the

slave trade Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

following the investigation by the

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at UCL.

Family

Neave married Mary, daughter of

David Richard Morier David Richard Morier (1784–1877) was an English diplomat and author. Life The third son of Isaac Morier, Consul-General to the Turkey Company at Constantinople, he was born in Smyrna on 8 January 1784 and educated at Harrow School before en ...

. Two sons, Sheffield Henry Morier Neave and Edward Strangways Neave, were partners in the family merchant house R. & T. Neave, the former being the father of

Sheffield Airey Neave Sheffield Airey Neave Order of St. Michael and St. George, CMG Order of the British Empire, OBE (20 April 1879 – 31 December 1961) was a British naturalist and entomologist. Neave was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, a governor of the Bank of En ...

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Governors of the Bank of England 1799 births 1868 deaths British merchants British bankers Deputy Governors of the Bank of England Younger sons of baronets 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-business-bio-stub

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