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.

James Eyre,[5] by whom he had a daughter, Lina Susan Penelope Collet.

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