Jasper Hollom

Sir Jasper Quintus Hollom KBE (16 December 1917 – 29 August 2014) was Chief Cashier of the Bank of England 1962-66, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England 1970-80, and chair of the City Takeover Panel 1980-87.

[1] Hollom was educated at King's School in Bruton, Somerset.

He did not attend university and worked first in an insurance office before joining the Bank of England in 1936.

[1] During the Second World War he served in the infantry in the Western Desert and was in an Italian prisoner of war camp from 1942.

[2] His elder brother was the distinguished ornithologist Philip Hollom.