Samuel Drewe


Samuel Drewe of Kensington in Middlesex, was Governor of the Bank of England from 1828 to 1830. He had been Deputy Governor from 1826 to 1828. He replaced John Baker Richards as Governor and was succeeded by John Horsley Palmer.

Origins

He was the 9th son of Francis Drewe of Grange in the parish of Broadhembury in Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1738, by his second wife Mary Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson of London. His sister Mary Drewe married John Fownes Luttrell of Dunster Castle, MP.

Marriage and children

He married Selina Thackery, by whom he had children as follows: