Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton

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Major Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton (1870-1940), was a British banker.

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Early life

Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton was born 20 December 1870. [1] He was the son of the banker Joseph Herbert Tritton.

Career

Tritton was the president of The Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1930 to 1940. He was also a director of Barclays Bank and chairman of Barclays Bank International from 1934 to 1937. [2]

He was High Sheriff of Essex from 1933 to 1934.

Personal life

He married Gertrude Susan Gosset. They had four children:

Death

He died on 21 November 1940. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Squire Of Leighs - Death Of Major Tritton - Famous Banker And D.L. For Essex" . Essex Chronicle . No. 9194. 29 November 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 19 April 2020 via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. Maurice Ogborn (5 November 2013). Equitable Assurances: The Story of Life Assurance in the Experience of The Equitable LIfe Assurance Society 1762-1962. Routledge. p. 249. ISBN   978-1-136-58811-2 . Retrieved 9 August 2015 via Google Books.
    - Manfred Pohl; Sabine Freitag, eds. (1 January 1994). Handbook on the History of European Banks. European Association for Banking History/Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 1199. ISBN   978-1-78195-421-8 . Retrieved 9 August 2015 via Google Books.