Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston

  Notes:

Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston was educated at Charterhouse. At an early age he was sent with a label bearing his address pinned to him to begin life in a counting house in Amsterdam. He witnessed the entry of the French republican troopsinto that city in 1793 looking, he said, like a mere rabble, with torn and worn uniforms, and with loaves of bread stuck on their bayonets. He must have returned to this country at the turn of the century, for he married his first wife in 1802at Walthamstow. She is said to have been the daughter of his principal in Holland, though there is no evidence, apart from the name, to support this assertion.He was a volunteer at some time during the French war, for he mounted guard at Nelson's funeral.After his first marriage he lived at Clapton, then almost in the country, and went daily into the City of London. He was reasonably successful in his profession and was able to avoid going bankrupt in the financial crisis of 1824-25 when sixLondon bankers withheld payment. He also became deputy chairman of the Society of Merchants.[HWW]After the death of his second wife he became in 1828 the first Agent of the Exeter branch of the Bank of England. In 1831 he was transferred to the Bristol Branch of the Bank of England where he remained till he retired from the Bank in 1836, "owing to some misunderstanding with the Directors" as his son William Monro put it. In 1837 he went to live at Weald.In 1841 he settled at a house called Little Dawson, Welling, in the Parish of Bexley, Kent, where he remained till his death. In 1842 he was elected a director of the Equitable Assurance Association and a director of the British PlateGlass Co., and regularly went up to London at least one day a week.Henry Septimus estimated that at his death he would have given before his death, or left by will, to his family about £34,000.(Source: Memoirs of William Monro Wollaston. Quoted by HWW)

FORGERY OF BANK NOTES 1818-20
Seven Commissioners were appointed in 1818 to inquire into the best possible means of preventing forgery of promissory notes issued by the Bank of England. They issued two reports dated 15 January 1819 (HC 2 (1819) xi, 303) and 15 February 1820 (HC 64 (1819-20) ii, 399).
The Commissioners were unsalaried. The warrant of appointment neither named nor made provision for the appointment of a Secretary.
Commissioners 9 July 1818 Banks, Sir J.; Congreve, Sir W.; Courtenay, W.; Gilbert, D.; Harman, J.; Wollaston, W. H.; Hatchett, C. (C 66/4200).

From: 'List of commissions and officials: 1815-1829 (nos. 1-11)', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume IX: Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1815-1870 (1984), pp. 9-16. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16908&strquery=Wollaston. Date accessed: 14 April 2005.

  Events

• Occupation: Merchant Banker.

• Education: Charterhouse.

Henry married Mary Ann Blanckenhagen, daughter of Theophilus or Christian Blanckenhagen and Mary Harden, on 23 Dec 1802 in Walthamstow, Essex. (Mary Ann Blanckenhagen was born on 2 Oct 1778 and died on 25 Jul 1805 in Chiselhurst.)

Henry next married Frances Buchanan, daughter of Rev. Dr Buchanan and Unknown, in 1813 in Woodmansterne, Surrey. (Frances Buchanan died in 1827.)

Henry next married Frances Monro, daughter of Charles Monro and Unknown, in 1830.