Bonamy Dobrée (banker) explained

Bonamy Dobrée (22 Aug 1818 - 13 Mar 1907) was Governor of the Bank of England from 1859 to 1861. He had been Deputy Governor from 1857 to 1859. He replaced Sheffield Neave as Governor and was succeeded by Alfred Latham.[1] In June 2020 the Bank of England issued a public apology for the involvement of Dobrée, amongst other employees, in the slave trade following the investigation by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at UCL.[2]

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  1. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/pdfs/governors.pdf Governors of the Bank of England.
  2. News: Jolly. Jasper. 2020-06-18. Bank of England apologises for role of former directors in slave trade. en-GB. The Guardian. 2020-06-19. 0261-3077.