Benjamin Buck Greene

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Benjamin Buck Greene (1808-1902) 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 1929 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 1856.[1] He was elected a Bank of England director in 1850, became Deputy Governor in 1871 and went on to become Governor in 1873.[1] He died at his home on 3 April 1902.[1]

Family

In 1837 Greene married Isabella Elizabeth Blyth, daughter of a wealthy ship chandler. They had three sons and three daughters.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Benjamin Buck Greene at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ↑ Spooner's Ginnery
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