Jonathan Backhouse
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Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, (November 15, 1849 - July 27, 1918)
Jonathan Backhouse was a director of the family Bank, which merged with Barclays Bank, of which he became a director. He was created a baronet in 1901.
He served as a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire.
He was the son of Edmund Backhouse and his wife, Juliet (born Fox). He married Florence, daughter of Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, 9th Baronet. They had six children (five sons and a daughter), most of whom distinguished themselves, though in different ways. Of these, the most famous was the fourth son, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G. (1878-1939), First Sea Lord 1938-39. Their eldest son, the reclusive sinologist and historian Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, became the most notorious following the publication in 1976 of a biography by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, in which he was exposed as a serial forger and confidence trickster.
