Matthew Clarmont (born Mathieu Clarmont;[1] c. 1704 – 7 May 1772) was an English banker who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1766 to 1769. He had been Deputy Governor from 1764 to 1766. He replaced John Weyland as Governor and was succeeded by William Cooper.[2][3] Clarmont's tenure as Governor occurred during the end of the Bengal bubble (1757–1769).
He was born in Bordeaux, the son of Mathieu and Jeanne Clarmont, and naturalised in 1724 by an Act of Parliament (No. 5, 11 George I).[4] In 1766, he was also director of the French Protestant Hospital in London.[5]
In 1733, Clarmont married Martha (Marthe) Leglize, daughter and co-heir of Gideon Leglize (Gédéon l'Église).[6] They had one daughter Susanne, born in 1736, and one son, Jean, born in May 1737, who died along with Martha in June 1737.[7][8] He lived at 16, Mincing Lane, London. He died in Bath, Somerset, aged 68.[4]
^The Charter and By-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain. Chiswick (London): French Protestant Hospital. 1892. p. 54.
^Governors of the Bank of England. Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Bank of England, London, 2013. Archived here. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
^Higonnet, Patrice L. R.; Landes, David S.; Rosovsky, Henry; Landes, David S. (1991). Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution. Harvard University Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780674295209. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ abSelby, Walford Dakin; Harwood, H. W. Forsyth; Murray, Keith W. (1910). The Genealogist. London, England : George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^Agnew, A. David Carnegie (1886). Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland. Turnbull & Spears. p. 527. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
^England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
^London, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
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