# Peter Gaussen

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**Peter Gaussen** (1723–1788)[1] was [Governor of the Bank of England](/source/Governor_of_the_Bank_of_England) from 1777 to 1779.

He was born Jean-Pierre Gaussen in Geneva, the son of Paul Gaussen, a French Huguenot, and moved to London in 1739.[2]

He was [Deputy Governor of the Bank of England](/source/Deputy_Governor_of_the_Bank_of_England) from 1776 to 1777. He replaced [Samuel Beachcroft](/source/Samuel_Beachcroft) as governor in 1777 (in doing so he became the first foreign-born governor of the Bank of England)[3] and was succeeded in turn by [Daniel Booth](/source/Daniel_Booth) in 1779.[4] Gaussen's tenure as Governor occurred during the [Bengal bubble crash](/source/Bengal_Bubble_of_1769) (1769–1784).

On 16 February 1755 he had married his second cousin Anna Bosanquet, the daughter of Samuel Bosanquet.[2][5] Their first son, also Peter, was born on 19 January 1756, their daughter Jane on 24 February 1757, and their son Samuel Robert on 27 February 1759.[6] The eldest son, Peter, was buried in the North choir of [St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate](/source/St_Helen's_Church,_Bishopsgate) on 3 November 1781.[7] Peter himself died on 20 November 1788 and was buried in the chancel of the same church on 28 November.[8][9] A funerary monument depicts a woman, probably Charity, holding a medallion portrait of Peter Gaussen, and with three children below.[10][11]

Their third-born son, Samuel Robert Gaussen (1759–1812) was MP for Warwick (1796–1802)[3] and a collector of the works of prominent landscape painter [Paul Sandby](/source/Paul_Sandby).[12] Peter bought [Brookmans Manor](/source/Brookmans_Park) in [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire) as a gift for Samuel in 1786.[1]

## See also

- [Chief Cashier of the Bank of England](/source/Chief_Cashier_of_the_Bank_of_England)

## References

1. Finn, Margot and Kate Smith eds (2018). [*The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857*](https://archive.org/details/dli.doa.006). London: UCL Press. p. [264](https://archive.org/details/dli.doa.006/page/n292). ISBN 978-1-78735-028-1.

1. Higonnet, Patrice. *Favourites of Fortune*. p. 258.

1. ["GAUSSEN, Samuel Robert (1759-1812), of 3 Mansfield Street, Mdx. and Brookmans Park, North Mimms, Herts. | History of Parliament Online"](http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/gaussen-samuel-robert-1759-1812). *www.historyofparliamentonline.org*. Retrieved 2018-02-23.

1. [*Governors of the Bank of England*.](http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/pdfs/governors.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211609/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/Documents/pdfs/governors.pdf) 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bank of England, London, 2013. [Archived here.](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211609/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/Documents/pdfs/governors.pdf) Retrieved 6 March 2016.

1. *The registers of St. Helen's Bishopgate, London*, ed. W. Bruce Bannerman (London, 1904), p.192. [\[1\]](https://archive.org/details/registersofsthel31sthe/page/192/mode/2up)

1. *The registers of St. Helen's Bishopgate, London*, ed. W. Bruce Bannerman (London, 1904), p.85, 86, 87. [\[2\]](https://archive.org/details/registersofsthel31sthe/page/84/mode/2up)

1. *The registers of St. Helen's Bishopgate, London*, ed. W. Bruce Bannerman (London, 1904), p.393. [\[3\]](https://archive.org/details/registersofsthel31sthe/page/392/mode/2up)

1. Minnie Reddan and Alfred W Clapham, St. Helen's Bishopsgate: Monuments within the church, in *Survey of London*, Volume 9, the Parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, Part I (London, 1924), pp. 52-79. [British History Online](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol9/pt1/pp52-79)

1. *The registers of St. Helen's Bishopgate, London*, ed. W. Bruce Bannerman (London, 1904), p.395. [\[4\]](https://archive.org/details/registersofsthel31sthe/page/394/mode/2up)

1. Minnie Reddan and Alfred W Clapham, 'Plate 71: St Helen's, Bishopsgate, monuments', in *Survey of London*, Volume 9, the Parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, Part I (London, 1924), p. 71. British History Online [\[5\]](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol9/pt1/plate-71).

1. Minnie Reddan and Alfred W Clapham, St. Helen's Bishopsgate: Monuments within the church, in *Survey of London*, Volume 9, the Parish of St Helen, Bishopsgate, Part I (London, 1924), pp. 52-79. [British History Online](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol9/pt1/pp52-79)

1. ["HG :: Hamilton Art Gallery"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171022095825/http://www.hamiltongallery.org/collection/sandby.asp). *www.hamiltongallery.org*. Archived from [the original](http://www.hamiltongallery.org/collection/sandby.asp) on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-23.

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