Benjamin Buck Greene

Benjamin Buck Greene (1808-3 April 1902) was a Governor of the Bank of England.

Career

Born the son of Benjamin Greene, Greene was educated at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds.[1] Green went to Saint Kitts in 1829 to look after his father's interests.[1] Through his wife's family connections, Greene formed a partnership with James and Henry Blyth, who controlled much of the external trade and sugar production of Mauritius, in 1846.[1] Blyths and Greene, merchants and shipowners, became one of London's largest colonial merchants and shipowners importing sugar from Mauritius and then exporting British goods back there again.[1] He converted Spooner's Estate on Saint Kitts to steam-powered milling in the 1870s.[2]

Buck purchased Midgham House in Berkshire in 1856.[1] He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1865.[3]

Elected a Bank of England director in 1850, he became Deputy Governor in 1871 and went on to become Governor in 1873.[1] He died at his home in Berkshire on 3 April 1902.[4]

Family

In 1837 Greene married Isabella Elizabeth Blyth, daughter of Thomas Blyth, a wealthy ship merchant. She died in 1888.[4] They had three sons and three daughters.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Benjamin Buck Greene at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ↑ Spooner's Ginnery
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 22936. p. 559. 4 February 1865.
  4. 1 2 "Obituary" The Times (London). Friday, 4 April 1902. (36733), p. 7.
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