Edward Alan John George, Baron George, known as Eddie George, or "Steady Eddie", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of Rothschild.
Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, was a British Peer and banker, who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1993.
Baron Kingsdown may refer to:
Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Aspull, along with Haigh, is surrounded by greenbelt and agricultural land, separated from Westhoughton, on its southeast side, by a brook running through Borsdane Wood. The ground rises from south to north, reaching 400 feet (122 m), and has views towards Winter Hill and the West Pennine Moors. It has a population of 4,977.
Frinsted or Frinstead is a small village and civil parish in the ecclesiastical parish of Wormshill and in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. and has been a recorded settlement as far back as the Domesday Book and indeed was the only settlement in the surrounding area to be described at the time to have a church. The village exists in the Hundred of Eyhorne.
The Cornish Foreshore Case was an arbitration case held between 1854 and 1858 to resolve a formal dispute between the British Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall over the rights to minerals and mines under the foreshore of the county of Cornwall in the southwest of England, most of which was owned by the duchy. The arbitration led to the Cornwall Submarine Mines Act 1858, which confirmed those rights for the duchy between the high and low water marks but not beyond. Sir John Patteson served as arbitrator, while the Rt. Hon. Thomas Pemberton Leigh, Baron Kingsdown represented the Duchy.
There have been six baronetcies created with the surname of Leigh: two in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Ireland, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The only creation remaining extant is that of Altrincham, while another is dormant.
Kingsdown is a small hamlet surrounded by the villages of Frinsted, Milstead, Doddington and Lynsted in Kent, England. The hamlet is within the civil parish of Lynsted with Kingsdown.
Torry Hill, in Kent, England, is the family estate of the Leigh-Pemberton line. It is on the boundary of Frinsted and Milstead, approximately 3 km due southwest of Kingsdown hamlet.
Thomas Leigh may refer to:
Robert Pemberton Milnes, was a British landowner and politician.
Leigh is both an English surname and a unisex given name meaning "meadow" and "delicate."
Major-General Sir Wykeham Leigh-Pemberton was a British Army officer and magistrate. He served as Aide-de-camp to Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, in Canada; and, to Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. He was the brother of Sir Edward Leigh Pemberton, grandfather of Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, Governor of the Bank of England.
St Peter's Court was a prep school for boys at Broadstairs in Kent, U.K. In 1969 it merged with the nearby Wellesley House School and its site was redeveloped for housing.
The Torry Hill Railway is a private miniature railway with the unusual gauge of 9 inches at Torry Hill near Frinsted in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. It operates only occasionally.
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