About Edward Darell
Lived 1728 – 1814 (aged 85–86). Edward Darell was a banker and merchant.
Edward Darell (1728–1814) was an English merchant and Governor of the Bank of England from 1787 to 1789.
He was the son of Robert Darell of Richmond, and his wife Mary Porten, daughter of James Porten, and sister of Judith Porten who was Gibbon's mother. He had a younger brother Robert, born in 1734. He was a first cousin of Edward Gibbon who made Darell one of his three executors in his will of 1791.
Darell acted as a Bank of England director from c.1771 to 1804. His brother Robert, of Sackville Street, had died in 1801, and had served as deputy governor of the South Sea Company. They had been in business together at 4 Union Court, Old Broad Street.
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Who was Edward Darell?
English banker; (1728-1814)
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Edward Darell was born in 1728.
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Edward Darell died in 1814.
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Edward Darell was a banker and merchant.
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