• Houblon is a surname. Notable people of this surname include: Abraham Houblon (1640–11 May 1722), Governor of the Bank of England, brother of James and...
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    Sir John Houblon (13 March 1632 – 10 January 1712) was an English merchant and banker who served as the first governor of the Bank of England from 1694...
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  • Jacob Houblon (31 July 1710 – 1770), of Hallingbury, Essex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1735 and...
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    Houblon's Almshouses are Grade II* listed almshouses in Richmond, London. They were founded in the 18th century by two sisters, Rebecca and Susanna Houblon...
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  • Thomas Henry Archer Houblon was an Anglican priest in the early 20th century. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 9 October 1849 at Brighton...
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    Sir James Houblon (1629 – circa 26 October 1700) was an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. James was baptised at St...
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  • Abraham Houblon (23 January 1640 – 11 May 1722) was Governor of the Bank of England from 1703 to 1705. He had been Deputy Governor from 1701 to 1703....
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    "affordable housing". This part of the development has its own name, "Houblon Apartments"; and a separate entrance, at one side of the building in Tyne...
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    was John Houblon, and the first Deputy Governor Michael Godfrey. (330 years later, in 1994, the bank would issue a £50 note depicting Houblon to mark its...
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  • John Archer-Houblon (1 December 1773 – 31 May 1831) of Welford Park and Hallingbury Place was a British Member of Parliament. Houblon was the eldest son...
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    In the spring of 1693, several London-based investors led by Sir James Houblon, a wealthy merchant hoping to reinvigorate the stagnating English economy...
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  • beginning in 1994. This reddish note replaced Christopher Wren with John Houblon, the first governor of the Bank of England, on the reverse. As an additional...
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    In his 2001 book, The Cash Nexus, which he wrote following a year as Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, Ferguson argues that the popular...
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    established themselves in the area, as evidenced by the names of the Rue du Houblon/Hopstraat ("Hops Street") and the Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains/Oude Graanmarktstraat...
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    beer, 8.0% ABV), available in 33cl and 75cl bottles, and in 20l barrels. Houblon Chouffe, a heavily hopped ale (triple beer, 9% ABV), available in 33cl...
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  • two: Susannah (née Archer) Houblon (who, in 1770, married the merchant Jacob Houblon of Hallingbury Place, a son of Jacob Houblon, MP, and grandson of Sir...
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    (1694–present) England (1694–1707) J. Houblon (1694–1697) W. Scawen (1697–1699) Tench (1699–1701) Ward (1701–1703) A. Houblon (1703–1705) Bateman (1705–1707)...
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    (1694–present) England (1694–1707) J. Houblon (1694–1697) W. Scawen (1697–1699) Tench (1699–1701) Ward (1701–1703) A. Houblon (1703–1705) Bateman (1705–1707)...
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    yellow, tender, pleasant, subacid. Cooking, drying Use 31 July–1 August Houblon Berkshire England <1901 P Peasgood Nonsuch x Cox Orange. Width 71 mm (2...
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    financed by Miss Harriet Archer-Houblon of Coopersale House as was the 1882 adjacent parish room. Miss Archer-Houblon's advowson provided for the church...
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    Archer and subsequently (in 1800) to the MP, John Houblon, who also changed his name, to John Archer-Houblon. It then passed to his younger son, Charles, who...
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    office 1 Sir John Houblon 1694–1697 2 Sir William Scawen 1697–1699 3 Nathaniel Tench 1699–1701 4 John Ward 1701–1703 5 Abraham Houblon 1703–1705 6 Sir James...
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    Coller Institute of Private Equity at the LBS. In 2008, he received a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellowship at the Bank of England. Since 2008, he is attached...
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    (1694–present) England (1694–1707) J. Houblon (1694–1697) W. Scawen (1697–1699) Tench (1699–1701) Ward (1701–1703) A. Houblon (1703–1705) Bateman (1705–1707)...
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  • Clerk to the Lord Mayors of London. Sir James Houblon, merchant, Member of Parliament. Sir John Houblon, First Governor of the Bank of England. Jules...
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  • part of the Brussels' Comic Book Route, a wall was designed in the Rue du Houblon/Hopstraat in Brussels, a reproduction of the one featured on the cover...
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  • Valois in 1537. His family was from Picardy, and their original name was Houblon. It seems more likely that he was John Hope alias "Petit Johnne, Trumpetour"...
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  • (1694–present) England (1694–1707) J. Houblon (1694–1697) W. Scawen (1697–1699) Tench (1699–1701) Ward (1701–1703) A. Houblon (1703–1705) Bateman (1705–1707)...
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    annum for the management of the loan. The first governor was Sir John Houblon, who is depicted in the £50 note issued in 1994. The charter was renewed...
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  • of Bank of England directors from the bank's foundation in 1694: John Houblon (1694–1699, 1700–1712) (First Governor 1694–1697) William Scawen (1694–1696)...
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