Augustus Mongredien (1807–1888) was a corn merchant, also known as a political economist and writer.

His father was a French officer who fled to England after Bonaparte's coup d'état in 1798.

[1] He was educated in the Roman Catholic college at Penn, Buckinghamshire, and continued his studies long after leaving the institution.

He entered commercial life at an early age, and was the owner of the first screw steamers to the Levant.

[1] He thoroughly grasped the free-trade question, and expounded his views on the most difficult problems of political economy with great lucidity.

He had a colloquial knowledge of seven languages, could recite many pages of the Koran, and spoke modern Greek like a native.