Richard Down

Richard Down (20 April 1734 – 26 July 1814) was an English banker of Bartholomew Lane in the City of London.

After their deaths the bank continued to trade as Pole, Thornton, Free, Down & Scott, retaining their surnames.

[2] Down died on 26 July 1814 at his house in Colney Hatch,[3] aged 80 and was buried at St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, as was his wife Rose in 1832, and five of their children.

[4] Upon demolition of that church in 1840,[5] the coffins and monuments were transferred to St James the Great, Friern Barnet.

[1] His wife and six of his children are additionally memorialised there in a plaque by the sculptor John Bacon the younger.