Sir Mark Collet, 1st Baronet

Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet (September 1816 – 25 April 1905) was an English merchant and banker.

[1] He served as Governor of the Bank of England between 1887 and 1889 and was made a baronet on 12 June 1888[2] in connection with his services in converting the National Debt (retirement of Consols).

John Corlett or Collet (1751–1814), a sea captain born in Douglas, Isle of Man, who settled in Philadelphia, PA, and his wife Ann Wilks (1758–1840)[4] Collet married firstly Susannah (or Susan) Gertrude Eyre (d. 22 July 1851, Liverpool, aged 29), the youngest daughter of the Rev.

She married, on 15 November 1870, Frederick Henry Norman (1839–1916), himself the son of a prominent British banker.

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