
	Where results make sense

Topic: John Houblon

	Bank of England\|Banknotes\|Current Banknotes\|Historical Characters\|Sir John Houblon
		Sir John Houblon was the first Governor of the Bank of England; he was appointed to this position in July 1694.
		John Houblon was born on 13 March 1632 and was strictly raised in the Protestant faith and in the family business.
		John Houblon married Marie, the daughter of Isaac Jurin, a Flemish refugee and during their lives together raised five sons and six daughters.
	www.bankofengland.co.uk /banknotes/current/houblon.htm (592 words)

	National Trust \| Hatfield Forest \| History \| The Houblon's forest
		The Houblon family came from Flanders, moving to England in the 16th century to avoid religious persecution.
		Sir John Houblon was possibly the most famous, becoming a Lord of the Admiralty in 1694, and Lord Mayor of London in 1695.
		Sir John was buried in the adjoining church to the bank in 1712.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hatfieldforest/w-hatfieldforest-history/w-hatfieldforest-history-houblons.htm (1686 words)

	london geezer
		And that's because John Houblon was their very first governor, back in 1694, and because the Bank cared about him 300 years later even if we didn't.
		John was a rich merchant from a rich family of merchants, although they'd started out a century earlier as a bunch of persecuted Belgian immigrants.
		John got to be Lord Mayor, and he was MP for Bodmin, and he was a friend of Samuel Pepys, and sorry, he really wasn't a terribly interesting chap.
	lndn.blogspot.com /2006_11_01_lndn_archive.html (4222 words)

	OPSI - UK Legislation
		Sir John Honeywood's estate: vesting property in Suffolk in trustees, to be sold; other estates to be purchased, and settled in lieu, under the direction of the Court of Chancery.
		John Guitton's estate: vesting in trustees to be conveyed, and purchase of another estate to be settled in lieu.
		John Hyde's (an infant) estate: vesting estates in his guardians to be sold to Holland Ackers, or another.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /chron-tables/private/p-chron22.htm (1152 words)

	Bank of England - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first governor was Sir John Houblon, who is depicted in the £50 note issued in 1994.
		The fifty pound denomination, much beloved of second hand car and antique dealers, did not reappear until 1981 when a Series D design was issued featuring the architect Christopher Wren and the plan of Saint Pauls' Cathedral on the reverse of this large note.
		The series E £50 saw the first use on Bank of England notes of a hologram on the note, a practice which has been extended to all the Banks' notes with the second issue of Series E notes..
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Bank_of_England (1917 words)

	London Hotel - The Apollo
		Originally known as Buckingham House, the building forming the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by King George III in 1762 as a private residence.
		The first governor was Sir John Houblon, who is depicted in the £50 note issued in 1990.
		Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by Pevsner as "the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century".
	www.hotelapollo.co.uk /places.html (1306 words)

	CO194-3
		This oath was sworn in St. John’s in the presence of Hayman, Crapp, Holdsworth ( Arthur and Robert).
		John Bradbury, a gunner of Fort William who was in the fort during the siege of 1705.
		John Huxford is a Master gunner and he testifies that he was forbidden to "cannonade" the house of James Benjers (where the French were) and which was owned by Colin Campbell.
	www.swgc.mun.ca /nfld_history/CO194/CO194-3.htm (8946 words)

	Hudgill One Name Study
		After Simon, the most important of the Archers was Henry who on his death in 1616 held a capital messuage (a dwelling house with adjacent buildings and curtilage for use of the household) of the Manor of Hemnalls which was a sub-manor to the then capital manor of Garnish Hall.
		His son John died without issue in 1707 leaving the estate to a William Eyre of Gray's Inn on condition that he changed his name to Archer and married Eleanor Wrottesley, John Archer's niece.
		Their son, again John Archer, no blood line with the original Archer family, died in 1800 leaving a daughter Susannah who in 1770 had married Jacob Houblon (0 1783) of Hallingbury Place.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /pambishop/Fred%20Brown/Coopersale%20House.htm (545 words)

	John Houblon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sir John Houblon (1632 - 1711) was the (The central bank of England and Wales) Bank of England 's first Governor, and held the post during 1694–1697.
		He is currently known for appearing on the back of Series E £50 (Click link for more info and facts about Bank of England note) Bank of England note.
		The Bank would argue that it was a fitting tribute to its tercentenary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/John_Houblon.htm (103 words)

	hderskine - pafg22.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John Francis Erskine GOODEVE-ERSKINE ( Frances Jemina ERSKINE, John Thomas ERSKINE, John Francis ERSKINE, Frances ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, Charles ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, Robert ERSKINE, Alexander ERSKINE, Thomas ERSKINE, Robert ERSKINE, Thomas ERSKINE, Robert ERSKINE, William ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, John ERSKINE, Henry) was born in 1836.
		John married Alice Mary Sinclair HAMILTON in 1866.
		Walter John Francis ERSKINE Earl of Mar (12) & Kellie (14) was born on 29 Aug 1865 and died on 3 Jun 1955.
	fbre.chez.tiscali.fr /hderskine/pafg22.htm (458 words)

	Root, Lords of Trade and Plantations
		John Evelyn described him as “very dexterous in business” and as one who had “raised himself by his industry from very moderate circumstances”.
		For instance, Sir John Ernle was the only person common to the successive sittings of July 9, 26, 1677; Craven the one common attendant at the successive meetings of August 9, 30, and again December 18, 20, 1677.
		John Evelyn voiced the general desire that the proposed board be composed of “sober, industrious, dexterous men, and of consummate experience in rebus agendis”.
	www.dinsdoc.com /root-1.htm (8571 words)

	Sir John Houblon
		This year a group of businessmen English, whose main thing is to sir John Houblon, obtained from king d' Espagne the right to trade with the Spanish colonies in America and to fish out the treasures of the wrecks of galions shipwrecked men in the Caribbean Sea.
		When the Bank of England was created Sir John became the first Governor; his brother Sir James Houblon (born c1651) and brother [Thomas Goddard] Abraham Houblon were elected as Directors.
		Two other members of the Houblon family were some of the first subscribers Both Sir John and Thomas Goddard Abraham Houblon, along with the King William III and Queen Mary II, contributed permitted maximum amount of £10,000.
	parish.ashtead.org /people/jh2.htm (1055 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bank of England
		Edward Alan John George, Baron George, GBE, PC, (born 1938), known as Eddie George, or Steady Eddie, was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003.
		Sir John Houblon (1632 - 1711) was the Bank of Englands first Governor, and held the post during 1694–1697.
		Robert Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, KG (born 5 January 1927) is a current cross-bencher on the House of Lords, and formerly a lawyer and banker.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bank-of-England (4674 words)

	Essex Review Volume 1: In Memoriam - Mr. Archer-Houblon
		His son John became an eminent merchant in London, and his grandson James is known as the father of the Royal Exchange.
		Two of these sons, Sir James and Sir John, and their mother's brother, were all Aldermen of London; Sir James was M.P. for the City in 1698, and Sir John was first governor of the Bank of England, Lord Mayor in 1695, and one of the Commissioners of the Admiralty.
		The Late squire whose father was John Archer-Houblon, M.P. for Essex, and whose mother was Mary Ann, only daughter of Thomas Berney Bramston, of Skreens (M.P. for Essex in six successive parliaments), was the eldest surviving son of eleven children.
	www.essexpast.co.uk /essexreview/houblonmem.html (1293 words)

	Letter from the Bank of England to the Friends of Charles Darwin
		You remarked particularly on the choices of Sir John Houblon and Edward Elgar.
		To mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, the Bank thought it appropriate to choose its first Governor, Sir John Houblon, to depict on the reverse of the note beside a scene of his house in Threadneedle Street.
		When considering the choice of figure to replace Michael Faraday on the reverse of the new £20 note, we decided that the character should not be drawn from the same field as another already celebrated on existing notes.
	www.gruts.com /darwin/correspondence/be19990315.htm (512 words)

	It's the ideal arrangement: a silent partner who takes care - Morning Advertiser
		The pub dates back to the 17th century and was named after Sir John Houblon, the first governor of the Bank of England who was a frequent visitor to Sir John Newton at nearby Culverthorpe Hall.
		Houblon's portrait still appears on the reverse of a £50 note.
		In 2001, the pub was bought by a pension fund as an investment property, and the deal struck by Simmonds and Purvis left the fund responsible for the upkeep of the exterior of the building, leaving them to do what they liked on the inside.
	www.morningadvertiser.co.uk /news_detail.aspx?articleid=5601 (917 words)

	Letter from the Bank of England (15-Mar-1999)
		You remarked particularly on the choices of Sir John Houblon and Edward Elgar.
		To mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Bank of England in 1694, the Bank thought it appropriate to choose its first Governor, Sir John Houblon, to depict on the reverse of the note beside a scene of his house in Threadneedle Street.
		When considering the choice of figure to replace Michael Faraday on the reverse of the new £20 note, we decided that the character should not be drawn from the same field as another already celebrated on existing notes.
	darwin.gruts.com /about/campaign-corresp-be19990315 (564 words)

	history
		All that clearly remains from this date is the magnificent Chancel arch made entirely from Roman bricks and a small single late 11th century window light with a round head of Roman bricks at the western end of the south wall in the nave.
		The tower at the west end of the nave dates from the 14th century whilst the octagonal spire is a copy of a later addition destroyed by lightning in 1738.
		The Reredos was a copy of that in Beverley Minster and John Archer Houblon and his wife travelled there to see the original.
	www.stephen.sylvester.dial.pipex.com /hchurch/history.htm (1059 words)

	[No title]
		John Wells agrees not to work any worsted stockings, his stock having been bought by Charles Rich, and Rich agrees to buy all stockings of a certain specified type which Wells works himself.
		Brief account of his daily activities with notes on the movements of ships, their victualling and supply, on his appointments, on papers signed, letters written and received, on resolutions of the Board and on his attendances in the Cabinet.
		Accompanying it is a copy, in Hedges’s hand, of a letter from Sir William Trumbull to the lords of the Admiralty asking for information on the customary attitude of the Kings of Sweden and Denmark to His Majesty’s men-of-war, December 9, 1695.
	shakespeare.folger.edu /other/html/dforich.html (4060 words)

	National Trust \| Hatfield Forest \| History
		The Houblons managed the forest in a more genteel manor than their predecessors avoiding disputes, and in 1831 John Houblon VI on the death of the last ancient feuding family, Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington who still owned part of the forest, bought out all the Barrington interests in the Forest.
		Hatfield Forest was saved from this fate because of the Houblon’s appreciation of it, and their understanding of its management, keeping up the grazing and coppicing.
		Major Houblon gave the remaining small parcel of land, Woodside Green, Wright’s Green, Table Coppice and Mott’s Green to the Trust in 1935.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/lo/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-hatfieldforest/w-hatfieldforest-history.htm (1352 words)

	John Houblon - Result for John Houblon - Meaning of John Houblon - Definition of John Houblon - Dictionary of Meaning - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Houblon - Result for John Houblon - Meaning of John Houblon - Definition of John Houblon - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net
		He is currently known for appearing on the back of Series E £50 British banknotes Bank of England note.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article John Houblon.
	www.mauspfeil.net /John_Houblon.html (179 words)

	The Grocers' Company
		In the Wars of the Roses, the City took the Yorkist side, and two Grocers, John Young and John Crosby, were knighted by Edward IV for services in the field.
		The second Hall was leased in 1694 to the newly-formed Bank of England, of which Sir John Houblon, a Grocer, was the first Governor.
		The "Piper Room" was refurbished in the summer of 2001, the main purpose being to rehang the tapestries as a triptych as intended by John Piper.
	www.grocershall.co.uk /comphistory.html (1150 words)

	Bonningtons
		It was Jacob Houblon that created the current lake to be found in the centre of the forest, some time around 1740.
		The most famous member of the houblon family was Sir John Houblon, who was the first active Governor of the Bank of England, his picture can be found on the reverse of the current £50 note.
		Unfortunately during the late 1800s there was a decline in the fortunes of the Houblon family, and they departed Hallingbury for their other family estate in Welford Berkshire in 1909.
	www.bonningtons.net /About.html (867 words)

	Bank of England\|Banknotes\|Current Banknotes\|£50
		The £50 note, with a portrait of Sir John Houblon on the back, is the highest denomination in value and largest in size (approx.
		Denomination numeral – the numbers appear in the top corners on the £50 note and are smaller and printed in a different style to those on the £5, £10 and £20 note.
		Houblon was the first Governor of the Bank of England and the current £50 note was issued during the same year (1994) as the Bank celebrated its 300th anniversary.
	www.bankofengland.co.uk /banknotes/current/current_50.htm (269 words)

	Fifty quid in The AnswerBank: Money & Finance
		Born in 1632, Sir John was one of seven brothers of Huguenot descent.
		He and four other members of the Houblon family were some of the first subscibers to the newly created Bank of England.
		The house, along with several others in Threadneedle Street, came into the Bank's possession in 1724 although it was not until 1731 that the decision was taken to use the land for the construction of a building to house the ever expanding Bank.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Money_and_Finance/Question80384.html (333 words)

	history
		All that clearly remains from this date is the magnificent Chancel arch made entirely from Roman bricks and a small single late 11th century window light with a round head of Roman bricks at the western end of the south wall in the nave.
		The tower at the west end of the nave dates from the 14th century whilst the octagonal spire is a copy of a later addition destroyed by lightning in 1738.
		The Reredos was a copy of that in Beverley Minster and John Archer Houblon and his wife travelled there to see the original.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/green/gfs27/hchurch/history.htm (1132 words)

	Livery Page 2
		The generosity of some of its members, notably Sir John Moore and Sir John Cutler, enabled the Hall to be rebuilt and let as a residence for the Lord Mayor.
		Charles II honoured the Company by allowing his name to be enrolled as a member, and in 1689 William III conferred upon it the unique honour of accepting the office of Sovereign Master.
		In 1694, the second Hall was leased to the newly formed Bank of England, of which Sir John Houblon, a Grocer, was the first Governor, and they remained as tenants for 40 years, by the end of which time the Company had recovered its prosperity.
	www.grocershall.co.uk /livery2.htm (449 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)