William Haldimand

At sixteen he entered his father's counting-house, showed talent for business, and at twenty-five became a director of the Bank of England.

In 1820 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ipswich, and was re-elected in 1826, but when the return was disputed he gave up the seat.

[1] Purchases of French rentes, made to strengthen the new Orleans dynasty, involved Haldimand in losses.

He gave £24,000 for a blind asylum at Lausanne, with more after his death, and £3,000 towards the erection of an Anglican church at Ouchy.

Inclined to radicalism in politics and to scepticism in religion, he nevertheless exerted himself in favour of the free church in Vaud, threatened with state persecution.