Francis Child (died 1740)

Sir Francis Child the younger (c. 1684 – 1740), of the Marygold, by Temple Bar, and Osterley Park, Middlesex, was a British banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1740.

In 1729, Child introduced a new form of promissory note with a picture of Temple Bar in the left-hand corner.

These were worded very similarly to the Bank of England notes of the present day and were discontinued, as Mr. F. G. H. Price considers, before 1800.

[2] Child became Lord Mayor in 1731 and appointed as his chaplain Dr. John Middleton, rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill.

Towards the close of his mayoralty, on 28 September of the following year, he attended with the court of aldermen, sheriffs, and other officials to congratulate George II on his safe return from Hanover.