Director, Bank of England, and Governor 1843-1845. Invented an automatic weighing machine for sovereigns, introduced in 1844, known as "the governor", weighing sovereigns at the rate of 23 per minute, and capable of discriminating to 1/10,000 of a grain.. From Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 4, p. 1246 (ancestry.com).
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M.P. For Shaftesbury And Weymouth.