Peter Urbanus Sartoris (French: Pierre-Urbain Sartoris; c. 1767–1833)[1][2] was a Swiss banker who had offices in London and Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
Biography
editBorn around 1767 in Geneva, the son of a Huguenot banker, Jean-Jacques Sartoris, and Anne Greffuhle (aunt of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe), he was baptised on 5 August 1773. He used to live in Gloucester Place[3] close to Regent's Park, and married 1813 Hester Matilda Tunno, daughter of the Scottish banker John Tunno (1746–1819) and sister of Edward Rose Tunno. They had six children including a son, the British statesman Edward John Sartoris, and a daughter who later married Louis Victor Arthur des Acres de l'Aigle.[4]
Shortly after 1818, he acted as first consul of the Swiss Confederacy in the United Kingdom, then was succeeded by Alexandre Prévost[5][6] Prévost wrote of him : 'He [Urbain Sartoris] had both good fortune and ambition, or rather self-pride. Thanks to his diplomatic charge, he thought he could fling open the gates of high society for himself; yet no sooner had he passed the line he had been craving for, did he stop caring for a second-order office, which he openly declared to me, offering me to be introduced as his successor'.[7]
During the French Restoration, Sartoris invested millions of francs in inland waterways, lived by then in his manor at Sceaux.[8] He bought the estates of la Garenne de Colombes, which his inheritors sold by pieces around 1865.[9]
He died in Paris on 30 November 1833.
Family
editPeter and Hester Sartoris had six children:[10]
- Jean-Édouard Sartoris (1814–1888)
- Henriette-Élisa Sartoris, (1815–1896)
- Frédéric-Urbain Sartoris (1820–1887), High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1855
- Charles-Urbain Sartoris, (1825–1884)
- Alfred Urbain Sartoris (1826–1909)[11]
- Jules-Alexandre Sartoris (1831–1863)
References
edit- ^ William Calverley Curteis, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons, Saunders and Benning, 1840, p. 910
- ^ Compte général de l'administration des finances, Ministère de l'économie et des finances, 1838.
- ^ The Monthly Magazine, 1813, Volume 35, p. 455.
- ^ Histoire des rues de La Garenne-Colombes, 2010, p. 10.
- ^ "Société Suisse de Généalogie Familiale Sartoris".
- ^ Olivier Perroux, Tradition, vocation et progrès : les élites bourgeoises de Genève (1814-1914), p. 175.
- ^ Geneva State Archives, Journal d'Alexandre Prévost, MS Fr. 4756, p. 26.
- ^ Rapport au Roi sur la situation des canaux (1831).
- ^ "Histoire de la commune de La Garenne-Colombes". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ^ Bulletin des lois de la Republique Francaise (1835), No. 139, p. 671. (In French)
- ^ "Alfred Urbain Sartoris (1826-1909), Army officer and magistrate". National Portrait Gallery.