List of directors of the Bank of England
The Court of Directors of the Bank of England originally consisted of 24 shareholders, of which 8 were replaced every year by new members, i.e. shareholders not already directors of the bank at the time. This is an incomplete list of Bank of England directors from the bank's foundation in 1694:
- John Houblon
- William Scawen
- Nathaniel Tench
- John Ward, MP
- Abraham Houblon
- James Bateman
- Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
- William Paterson
- James Houblon
- Henry Furnese
- Samuel Lethieullier
- Theodore Janssen
- John Lordell
- James Denew
- Brook Bridges
- George Boddington
- Obadiah Sedgwick
- Edward Clarke
- Robert Raworth
- Thomas Goddard
- John Smith
- William Gore
- Thomas Abney
- William Hedges
- John Huband, Bt
- Francis Eyles, 1st Baronet
- William Ashurst
- Samuel Bulteel
- Charles Chamberlan
- Peter Delmé
- Richard Levett
- John Rudge
- Charles Thorold
- William Des Bouverie
- Gerard Conyers
- Robert Clayton
- Thomas Scawen
- Charles Peers
- John Emilie
- Richard Du Cane
- George Thorold
- Christopher Lethieullier
- Randolph Knipe
- Richard Houblon
- Robert Bristow
- John Eyles, 2nd Baronet
- Humphry Morice
- John Francis Fauquier
- Joseph Eyles
- John Hanger
- William Humfreys
- Samuel Holden
- Horatio Townshend
- Delillers Carbonnel
- Edward Bellamy
- Nathaniel Gould
- William Thompson
- Bryan Benson
- John Olmius
- Francis Forbes
- Thomas Cooke
- William Jolliffe
- Francis Porten
- James Gaultier
- Stamp Brooksbank
- Robert Alsop
- William Fawkener
- Benjamin Lethieullier
- Benjamin Longuet
- Charles Savage
- John Thompson
- Robert Thornton
- William Hunt
- Alexander Sheafe
- Matthew Raper
- John Lequesne
- Claude Fonnereau
- Merrick Burrell
- James Theobald
- Matthews Beachcroft
- Thomas Winterbottom
- Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet
- Peter Du Cane
- Mr Thomas Plumer, Esquire, father of Right-Hon. Thomas Plumer
- Thomas Chitty
- Bartholomew Burton
- Robert Marsh
- John Weyland
- Benjamin Hopkins
- Lyde Browne
- Gustavus Brander
- Matthew Clarmont
- William Cooper
- Edward Payne
- James Sperling
- Samuel Beachcroft
- Peter Gaussen
- Martyn Fonnereau
- Samuel Bosanquet
- Samuel Thornton
- Brook Watson, 1st Baronet
- John Harrison
- Peter Thellusson, 1st Baron Rendlesham
- Edward Simeon
- Peter Cazalet
- William Manning
- Jeremiah Harman
- John Staniforth
- John Reid, 2nd Baronet
- William Thompson, MP
- John Gellibrand Hubbard, later 1st Baron Addington,
- Thomas Matthias Weguelin
- Charles Frederick Huth
- Benjamin Buck Greene
- Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham
- George Goschen
- Christopher Weguelin
- Alfred de Rothschild
- Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke
- William Middleton Campbell
- Everard Hambro
- Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe
- John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke
- Edward Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just
- Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley
- Frederick Huth Jackson 1918
- Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor, 1st Baronet 1918 1927
- Alan Anderson
- Brien Cokayne, 1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne
- Roland Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale
- Albert Charles Gladstone, 5th Baronet
- John Nairne, 1st Baronet
- Alexander Shaw 1927
- Basil Blackett
- Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
- Andrew Duncan
- John Hindley, 1st Viscount Hyndley
- William Henry Clegg
- Patrick Ashley Cooper
- Edward Holland-Martin
- Basil Gage Catterns
- James George Weir
- Dallas Gerald Mercer Bernard
- Otto Niemeyer
- James Pitman
- John Maynard Keynes
- Josiah Wedgwood V
- Harry Arthur Siepmann
- William Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy
- Michael Babington Smith
- Humphrey Mynors, 1st Baronet
- Eric Roll
- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
- Alastair Pilkington
- Adrian Cadbury
- Andrew Crockett
- John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
- David Clementi
- Bill Morris
- Peter Jay
- Neville Simms