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5lb.7d. The leading buyer was Nathan Mayer Rothschild,
who was under orders from the British Treasury to
dispatch gold to the Duke of Wellington, grouping to stop
Napoleon. After Waterloo, the price of gold dropped.
During the twentieth century, the most important name at
the Bank of England was Lord Montagu Norman. His
grandfather, George Warde Norman, had been governor
of the Bank of England from 1821-1872, longer than any
other man; his other grandfather, Lord Collet, was
Governor of the Bank of England from 1887-89, and
managing partner of Brown Shipley Co. in London for
twenty-five years.
In 1894, Montague Norman was sent to New York to
work in the offices of Brown Brothers; he was befriended
by the W.A. Delano family, and lived with the Markoe
family, partners of Brown Bros. In 1907, Norman was
elected to the Court of the Bank of England. In 1912, he
had a severe nervous breakdown, and was treated by
[Carl] Jung in Switzerland. He became deputy governor
of the Bank of England in 1916, and later served until
1944 as Governor. The Wall Street Journal wrote of him
in 1927:
"Mr. M. Collet Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England, is now head
and shoulders above all other British bankers. No other British banker has
ever been as independent and supreme in the world of British finance as Mr.
Norman is today. He has just been elected Governor for the eighth year in
succession. Before the war, no Governor was allowed to hold office for more
than two years; but Mr. Norman has broken all precedents. He runs his Bank
and his Treasury as well. He appears to have no associations except his