Frederick Henry Norman

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Frederick Henry Norman (1839-1916) was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co.. The Norman family have a long history in English banking.

He was the fourth son of George Warde Norman (1793-1882), a director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872.[1]

He married Lina Susan Penelope Collet (d. 1950), a daughter of Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet, of St. Clere, Ightham, Sevenoaks, on 15 November 1870.[2] They had three children together:

  1. Sir Montagu Norman (the 1st Baron Norman (6 September 1871–4 February 1950)[3], a long serving Governor of the Bank of England) and
  2. Ronald Collet Norman (1873–5 December 1963), (who chaired the BBC and the London County Council).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bertrand Gille. Travaux de droit, d'économie, de sociologie et de sciences politiques. Librarie Droz, 1965.[1]. Retrieved 3 October 2007. Gille comments on the intermarriages between banking families, long-established and newcomers.
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, p. 14
  3. ^ Henry Clay. Lord Norman. St. Martin's Press, 1957. 495 pp. According to Clay, Montagu was the eldest child.
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