Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton
Major Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton (1870-1940), was a British banker.
Early life[edit]
Herbert Leslie Melville Tritton was born 20 December 1870.[1] He was the son of the banker Joseph Herbert Tritton.
Career[edit]
Tritton was the president of The Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1930 to 1940. He was also a director of Barclays Bank and chairman of Barclays Bank International from 1934 to 1937.[2]
He was High Sheriff of Essex from 1933 to 1934.
Personal life[edit]
He married Gertrude Susan Gosset. They had four children:
- Lucy Constance Tritton (1895-?)
- Marjorie Gertrude Tritton (1897-?)
- Ralph Leslie Tritton (1900-1929)
- George Henton Tritton (1905-1934)
Death[edit]
He died on 21 November 1940.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Squire Of Leighs - Death Of Major Tritton - Famous Banker And D.L. For Essex". Essex Chronicle. No. 9194. 29 November 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 19 April 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Maurice Ogborn (5 November 2013). Equitable Assurances: The Story of Life Assurance in the Experience of The Equitable Life Assurance Society 1762-1962. Routledge. p. 249. ISBN 978-1-136-58811-2. Retrieved 9 August 2015 – via Google Books.
- Manfred Pohl; Sabine Freitag, eds. (1 January 1994). Handbook on the History of European Banks. European Association for Banking History/Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 1199. ISBN 978-1-78195-421-8. Retrieved 9 August 2015 – via Google Books.
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