Officers of The South Sea Company
The South Sea Company had a Governor (generally an honorary position); a Subgovernor; a Deputy Governor and 30 directors (reduced in 1753 to 21).
| Year | Governor | Subgovernor | Deputy Governor |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 1711 | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford | Sir James Bateman | Samuel Ongley |
| August 1712 | Sir Ambrose Crowley | ||
| October 1713 | Samuel Shepheard | ||
| February 1715 | George, Prince of Wales | ||
| February 1718 | King George I | ||
| November 1718 | John Fellows | ||
| February 1719 | Charles Joye | ||
| February 1721 | Sir John Eyles, Bt | John Rudge | |
| July 1727 | King George II | ||
| February 1730 | John Hanbury | ||
| February 1733 | Sir Richard Hopkins | John Bristow | |
| February 1735 | Peter Burrell | ||
| March 1756 | John Bristow | John Philipson | |
| February 1756 | Lewis Way | ||
| January 1760 | King George III | ||
| February 1763 | Lewis Way | Richard Jackson | |
| March 1768 | Thomas Coventry | ||
| January 1771 | Thomas Coventry | vacant (?) | |
| January 1772 | John Warde | ||
| March 1775 | Samuel Salt | ||
| January 1793 | Benjamin Way | Robert Dorrell | |
| February 1802 | Peter Pierson | ||
| February 1808 | Charles Bosanquet | Benjamin Harrison | |
| 1820 | King George IV | ||
| January 1826 | Sir Robert Baker | ||
| 1830 | King William IV | ||
| July 1837 | Queen Victoria | ||
| January 1838 | Charles Franks | Thomas Vigne |
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Read more about this topic: South Sea Company
Famous quotes containing the words officers, south, sea and/or company:
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)
“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Cried out, Dim sea, hear my most piteous story!
The sea swept on and cried her old cry still,
Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill.
He fled the persecution of her glory....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““Come, boys, I know there’s kindly hearts among so good a
crowd—
To be in such good company would make a deacon proud.”
—Hugh Antoine D’Arcy (1843–1925)