William Paterson (April 1658 - 22 January 1719) was a Scottish trader and banker. He was the founder of the Bank of England and was one of the main proponents of the catastrophic …

Jan 18, 2025 · William Paterson (born April 1658, Tinwald, Dumfries, Scotland—died January 22, 1719) was a Scottish founder of the Bank of England, writer on economic issues, and the …

Jan 26, 2025 · That great financial genius, William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, was born in 1658, of a good family, at Lochnaber, in Dumfriesshire. He is supposed, in early …

Sir William Paterson lived from April 1658 to 22 January 1719. He was the founder of the Bank of England and influential in starting the Bank of Scotland; he was also the architect of the …

Sir William Paterson (April, 1655 – January 22, 1719) was a Scottish merchant and banker, the founder of the Bank of England and an initiator of the Bank of Scotland. He wrote on economic …

Jul 21, 2024 · IT was 330 years ago this week that the Bank of England was established by royal charter sealed by the joint sovereigns, William and Mary, based upon the plan first …

Banking projector who was among the first directors of the Bank of England when it was chartered in 1694. He resigned in 1695. Paterson was involved in the failed Darien scheme of July 1698 …

Paterson was born in Tynwald, Dumfriesshire but lived in England from childhood. He became a merchant, trading with the West Indies, and a financier. He proposed the creation of the Bank …

In 1691 William Paterson came into the public eye for the first time when he submitted a proposal to the English government for the formation of a national bank as a way of bolstering the public …

Jun 6, 1994 · 'The Projecting Age' - William Paterson and the Bank of England David Armitage looks at the Bank's founder and his contribution to the Financial Revolution that arguably …