Sheffield Neave
{{Short description|British financier (1799–1868)}}
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Sheffield Neave (1799–1868) was an English merchant and Governor of the Bank of England from 1857 to 1859.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/-2042386574|title=Summary of Individual Sheffield Neave, 11th Apr 1799 – 22nd Sep 1868, Legacies of British Slave-ownership|accessdate=16 May 2017}}[http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/pdfs/governors.pdf Governors of the Bank of England.] Bank of England, London, 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211609/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/Documents/pdfs/governors.pdf Archived here.] Retrieved 24 March 2016.
Life
He was the son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, Frances Digby, daughter of William Digby, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.{{alox2|title=Neave, Sheffield}} He had been Deputy Governor from 1855 to 1857. He replaced Thomas Matthias Weguelin as Governor and was succeeded by Bonamy Dobrée.
Neave's tenure as Governor occurred during the Panic of 1857. In June 2020, the Bank of England issued a public apology for the involvement of Neave, amongst other employees, in the slave trade following the investigation by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at UCL.{{Cite web|date=18 June 2020|title=Bank of England apologises for role of former directors in slave trade|url=http://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/18/bank-of-england-apologises-for-role-of-former-directors-in-slave-trade|access-date=19 June 2020|website=the Guardian|language=en}}
Family
Neave married Mary, daughter of David Richard Morier. Two sons, Sheffield Henry Morier Neave and Edward Strangways Neave, were partners in the family merchant house R. & T. Neave, the former being the father of Sheffield Airey Neave.{{cite book |author1= Catherine Hall |author2= Nicholas Draper |author3=Keith McClelland |author4= Katie Donington, Rachel Lang |title= Legacies of British Slave-ownership |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mF03BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|date=28 August 2014 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |isbn= 978-1-107-04005-2|page=85}}
See also
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External links
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Category:Younger sons of baronets
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