Parentage
John Julius Angerstein was born in 1732 in St Petersburg, Russia. It has wrongly been suggested that he was a natural son of empress Catherine II or of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia. Family tradition holds that his true parents were empress Anna of Russia and the London businessman, Andrew Poulett Thompson; his first position after arriving in London ca. 1749 at the age of fifteen was in Thompson's counting-house.
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