David Somerset (banker)

David Henry FitzRoy Somerset (19 June 1930 – 25 October 2014)[1] was Chief Cashier of the Bank of England from 1980 to 1988.

The signature of the Chief Cashier appears on British banknotes.

Somerset was replaced as Chief Cashier by Malcolm Gill.

Somerset married Ruth Ivy Wildbur in 1955.

They had two children: The family lived at White Wickets, Boarshead, near Crowborough.