Stamp Brooksbank

Stamp Brooksbank (23 June 1694 – 24 May 1756) was an English MP and Governor of the Bank of England.

He was the eldest son of warehouseman and haberdasher Joseph Brooksbank of Hackney House and Cateaton St., Cheapside, London.

He became a successful merchant trading with Turkey and was a member of the New England Company in 1726.

He succeeded his father in 1726 to Healaugh Manor, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

He was elected MP for Colchester in 1727 and for Saltash in 1743, being re-elected for the same constituency in 1747.