Stamp Brooksbank

Stamp Brooksbank (1694 – 24 May 1756) was an English MP and Governor of the Bank of England.

He was the eldest son of warehouseman and haberdasher Joseph Brooksbank of Hackney House and Cateaton St., Cheapside, London. He was the heir of his mother's father Richard Stamp, the elder brother of Sir Thomas Stamp, Lord Mayor of London in 1692. He became a successful merchant trading with Turkey and was a member of the New England Company in 1726. He succeeded his father in 1726 to Healaugh Manor, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

He was elected MP for Colchester in 1727 and for Saltash in 1743, being re-elected for the same constituency in 1747. He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1728 to 1740 and from 1747 to 1754, as Deputy Governor from 1740 to 1741 and as Governor from 1741 to 1743.

He built Hackney House in Clapton in 1732. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Thomson of Hackney and Nonsuch Park, Surrey with whom he had 3 sons and 5 daughters. He was succeeded by his son Joseph.

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    Parliament of Great Britain
    Preceded by
    Sir Thomas Webster, Bt
    Matthew Martin
    Member of Parliament for Colchester
    1727 1734
    With: Samuel Tufnell
    Succeeded by
    Matthew Martin
    Isaac Lemyng Rebow
    Preceded by
    John Clevland
    Thomas Corbett
    Member of Parliament for Saltash
    1743 July 1747
    With: Thomas Corbett
    Succeeded by
    Thomas Corbett
    Edward Boscawen
    Preceded by
    Edward Boscawen
    Thomas Corbett
    Member of Parliament for Saltash
    December 1747 1754
    With: Thomas Corbett to 1751
    George Brydges Rodney 1751–54
    Succeeded by
    George Clinton
    Viscount Duncannon