Peter Thellusson

Peter Thellusson was a French-Swiss business man and banker. His father Isaac had started a Swiss bank and then became the Genevan Ambassador to Paris. Peter's brother George-Tobie and he managed the successful bank in cooperation with Jacques Necker. He managed the London branch of the bank from 1760, but started his own finance house in Philpot Lane, and in 1761 took English nationality by Act of Parliament. In that year he also married Ann Woodford, sister of the Baronet of Carlby, Lincolnshire. He was also involved in other businesses becoming a director of the Bank of England, part owner of several sugar refineries, and an importer of tobacco and sugar from the West Indies. He built a large house for himself 'Plaistow Lodge' at Bromley in Kent (Now Bromley Parish CofE Primary School) and in 1790 bought the Brodsworth estate in South Yorkshire (House and gardens English Heritage)After his death his estate was embroiled in the Thellusson Will Case.

He was the father of the first Baron Rendlesham.