John Benjamin Heath

John Benjamin Heath FRS FSA (6 June 1790 – 16 January 1879) was Governor of the Bank of England from 1845 to 1847.

Like his father, he became a successful London merchant who was appointed to be Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1842 to 1845, replaced William Cotton as Governor and was succeeded in turn by William Robinson.

[3] Heath was appointed Consul General to the King of Sardinia and in 1867 he was created a Baron of the Kingdom of Italy.

[3] On his death in 1879 he was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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