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1778 to Present - Newland, Hase, Rippon, Marshall, Miller, Forbes, May, Bowen, Nairne, Bradbury, Harvey, Fisher, Mahon, Catterns, Peppiatt, Beale, O'Brien, Hollom, Fforde, Page, Somerset, Gill, Kentfield, Lowther, Bailey, 10/- Notes, £1 Notes, £5 Notes, £10 Notes, £50 Notes, Dedben sets, Error Notes, First Day Covers, Provincial Notes, Test Notes Advertising Notes, Treasury Notes, White Notes, Branch Notes, Operation Bernhard And Andrew Notes
 | 1807-1829 - Hase (Henry)
Henry Hase was known as the reluctant Chief Cashier. He entered service in 1793 and was appointed Chief Cashier in September 1807 following the disgrace of the second cashier, Robert Aslett, who was found guilty of embezzling money. Hase died in 1829 aged 65. |
|  | 1914-1919 - Bradbury (John Swanwick)
John Bradbury was born in 1872 and entered the Civil Service in 1896, first in the Colonial Office and then the treasury. After serving under Asquith and then Lloyd George (including help with the famous budget of 1909), Bradbury was appointed one of two permanent secretaries to the Treasury in 1913. At the outbreak of the First World War, Bradbury quickly realised the necessity of replacing gold with paper currency and the banknotes which were issued by the Treasury carried his signature; they were immediately nicknamed 'Bradburys'. He remained the government's chief financial adviser during the war and left the Treasury in 1919 to become principal British delegate to the Reparation Commission. He was knighted in 1913, created the first Bradbury in January 1952 and died in 1950. |
|  | 1918-1925 - Harvey (Ernest Musgrave)
Ernest Harvey was born on 1867. In 1885 he got his first job in the Bank service. Then became Deputy Chief Cashier in 1902 and was Chief Cashier from 1918 to 1925. He was the appointed Comptroller, he was a Director from 1928 - 1929 and Deputy Governor from 1929 - 1936. He died in1955. |
|  | 1919-1928 - Fisher (Norman Fenwick Warren)
Warren Fisher was born in 1879 and entered the Civil Service in 1903. His first post was at the Inland Revenue and in 1907 he became private secretary to the Chairman of the board, Robert Chalmers. In 1912 he moved for a short time to the National Health Insurance Commision for England but returned the following year to Somerset House as a Commisioner of Inland Revenue. In 1914 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board and in August 1918 he became Chairman. He was knighted in 1919 and on 1st October that year Sir Warren Fisher went as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury where he stayed until retirement in 1939. |
|  | 1925-1929 - Mahon (Cyril Patrick)
Cyril Mahon was born in 1882. His first job was in the Lincoln Bank at Grimsby before being elected to the Bank of England on 14th March 1901. In 1916 he was appointed assistant principal of the Discount Office. He became assistant chief cashier in 1918, deputy chief cashier in 1923 and held the post of Chief Cashier from 1st April 1925 to 26th March 1929. He died in 1945. |
|  | 1929-1934 - Catterns (Basil Gage)
Basil Catterns was born in 1886 in Lancashire. He spent five years with the Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Company and then entered Bank service in 1908. In 1920 got a job in the Chief Cashier's office; he became Assistant Chief in 1923, Deputy Chief in 1925 and succeeded Cyril Mahon as Chief Cashier in 1929. He held this post until 1934, when he was appointed an Executive Director. In March 1936 he succeeded Sir Ernest Harvey as Deputy Governor and retired in 1945. He died in 1969. |
|  | 1934-1949 - Peppiatt (Kenneth Oswald)
Kenneth Peppiatt was born in 1893. After the war he rose to become Principal of the Discount office in 1928 and Chief Cashier on in 1934. KOP, as he was known, held the post for 15 years until 1949, the second longest period (after Gordon Nairne) in the century. From 1949 he was an Executive Director till is retirement in 1957 when he joined Coutts Bank as a Director. He died in 1983. |
| |  | 1955-1962 - O'Brien (Leslie Kenneth)
Leslie O'Brien was born in 1908, he attended Wandsworth School, In 1927 he entered the Bank service were he was private secretary to the Governor for two years. He was appointed Deputy Chief Cashier in 1951 and was Chief Cashier from 1955 to 1962. He became an Executive Director in 1962 and Deputy Governor from 1964-66. His term as Governor was from 1966-73. He died in 1995. |
|  | 1962-1966 - Hollom (Jasper Quintus)
Jasper hollom was born in 1917. He got is first job in the bank in 1936. After the war he rejoined the bank and worked as assistant to the Chief Cashier, Leslie O’Brien. In was made Deputy Chief Cashier in 1956, from 1962 to 1966 he was Chief Cashier.
In 1966 he was appointer to the Court of Directors were he succeeded Sir Maurice Parson as deputy Governor in 1970 to 1980. Sir Jasper hollom retired in 1984.
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|  | 1966-1970 - Fforde (John Standish)
John Fforde was born in 1921. His first job in the bank was 1957 and he worked 4 years as Deputy Head of the Central Banking Information Department. In 1964 he became Advisor to the Governor then was chief Cashier from 1966 to 1970. He then held the position of Executive Director for twelve years and was again Advisor to the Governor till 1984. He died in 2000. |
|  | 1970-1980 - Page (John Brangwyn)
John Page was born in 1923. His first job in the bank was 1948 and was 2nd for 2 years to the IMF in 1953. In 1966 he was appointed Assistant Chief Cashier and in 1968 First Deputy Chief Cashier. From 1970 to 1980 he was Chief Cashier, in 1980 to 1982 was executive Director of the Bank until he retired. He died in 2005. |
|  | 1980-1988 - Somerset (David Henry Fitzroy)
David Henry Fitzroy was born in 1930. He attended Wellington College and Peterhouse in Cambridge. This first job in the bank was 1952 and from 1959 to 1962 was 2nd as personal assistant to the Managing Director of the IMF. In 1973 was appointed Deputy Chief Cashier and in 1980 was promoted to Chief Cashier and retired in 1980. |
|  | 1988-1991 - Gill (George Malcolm)
Malcolm Gill was born in 1934. He attended Cambridgeshire High School and Sidney Sussex Collage in Cambridge. He joined the bank in 1957 and was 2nd to the office of the UK delegation at the IMF in Washington from 1966 to 1968 and had many other jobs in the bank and in 1988 became Chief Cashier until he retired in 1991. |
|  | 1991-1998 - Kentfield (Graham Edward Alfred)
Graham Kentfield was born in 1940. He attended Bancroft’s School in Essex and St Edmund Hall in Oxford. His first job in the bank was in 1963. In 1980 – 1984 he was in Financial Statistics Division. In 1985 he was became the Deputy Chief Cashier and was appointed Chief Cashier in 1991. He retired in 1998. |
|  | 1999 - 2003 - Lowther (Merlyn Vivienne)
Merlyn Lowther was born in 1954. She attended Manchester High School for girls and University of Manchester. In 1975 she graduated with first class honours in mathematics. She has spent her entire working life at the bank. In 1991 she was appointed Head of banking and Deputy Chief Cashier and in 1996 became Personal Director. In 1999 she was appointed Chief Cashier and was the 1st woman to hold the position in the bank for over 300 years and in 2003 retired. |
|  | 2004 - Present - Bailey (Andrew John)
Andrew bailey was born 30th March 1959, educated in Leicester at Wygeston Boys School, University of Central England and Birmingham and Queens Collage. He obtained a BA and Ph.d at Cambridge. |
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