Thomas Scawen

British politician; (1654-1730) · Politicians · Died at 76

Sir Thomas Scawen was a British merchant, financier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1722. He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1721 to 1723.

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Portrait of Thomas Scawen, three-quarter-length, in a cream coat and blue waistcoat, in a landscape with a classical building beyond

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Politicians born in the 1650s 6

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