[1] At the 1747 general election, he was invited to stand as a Tory candidate for Middlesex, where his family owned land.

However, he had previously promised his support to Sir Roger Newdigate, and instead stood for Bishop's Castle.

[4] After his death in October 1752, aged 59, he was succeeded as head of the bank firstly by his son Francis, and after Francis's death in 1763 by his younger son Robert.

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