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John Houblon on 30 April 2014. John Houblon Sir John Houblon (13 March 1632 – 10 January 1712) was the first Governor of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1697. John Houblon was the third son of James Houblon, a London merchant, and his wife, Mary Du Quesne, daughter of Jean Du Quesne, the younger. He had nine brothers and three sisters. The Houblon family were Hugeunots from Lille and he later became an elder in the Huguenot Church in Threadneedle Street. He married Mary Jurin in 1660, who came from a Flemish Protestant family and they had five sons and
John Archer-Houblon John Archer-Houblon John Archer Houblon (1 December 1773 – 31 May 1831) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Jacob Houblon and his wife Sussannah Archer of Great Hallingbury, Essex and educated at Felsted School, Charterhouse School (1784–91) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1791). He succeeded his maternal grandfather in 1800, inheriting Welford Park, Berkshire and took the additional name of Archer by Royal Licence in 1801. He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex for 1801–02 and elected MP for Essex in 1810, sitting until 1820. He married Mary Ann, the daughter of Thomas Berney Bramston