John Rudge (banker)

John Rudge (15 August 1669 – 22 March 1740) was an English merchant who was a Governor of the Bank of England and an MP for Evesham.[1]

He was born the eldest surviving son of Edward Rudge, MP for Evesham from whom he was to inherit the Evesham Abbey estate. John Rudge was chosen Mayor of Evesham for 1691.

After his father's death in 1696 Rudge was appointed an assistant in the Royal African Company and to the committee of the East India Company. He was a director of the New East India Company from 1704 to 1708 and a director of the Bank of England from 1699 to 1711. He was elected Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for 1711 to 1713 and made Governor for 1713 to 1715, replacing Nathaniel Gould and being succeeded by Peter Delmé.[2] He subsequently resumed his directorship from 1715 to his death. He was also Deputy-Governor of the South Sea Company (1721–30)

In a by-election in 1698 he was elected Member of Parliament for Evesham, holding the seat almost continuously until 1734.

He died in 1740 and was buried in Wheatfield, Oxfordshire where his son Edward Rudge, FRS lived. John Rudge had married Susanna, the daughter and heiress of John Letten of London, and with her had the one son, Edward, and two daughters.

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References

  1. ↑ "UDGE, John (1669-1740), of Mark Lane, London and Evesham Abbey, Worcs.". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Governors of the Bank of England. Bank of England, London, 2013. Archived here. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
Government offices
Preceded by
Nathaniel Gould		 Governor of the Bank of England
1713 – 1715 		Succeeded by
Sir Peter Delmé

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