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About Jonathan Backhouse
- Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, (15 November 1849 – 27 July 1918) was a British banker. Backhouse was a director of Backhouse's Bank the family bank in Darlington, County Durham, which merged with Barclays Bank, of which he became a director.
- He was created a baronet in 1901 He served as a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire.
- He was for many years an active Liberal Unionist.
- In 1881 he was resident at The Rookery, Middleton Tyas, North Yorkshire.He was the son of Edmund Backhouse, Member of Parliament for Darlington, and his wife, Juliet (born Fox).
- He married in 1871 Florence Salusbury-Trelawny, daughter of Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, 9th Baronet.
- Lady Backhouse was for some years a member of the Darlington Board of Guardians, and took a lively interest in the Liberal Unionist cause.
- She died at Uplands, Darlington on 11 October 1902.
- They had six children (five sons and a daughter), most of whom distinguished themselves, though in different ways.
- Of these, the most famous was the fourth son, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Backhouse who was First Sea Lord from 1938-39. Their eldest son, Edmund, garnered posthumous notoriety following the publication in 1976 of his biography by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, in which Edmund was exposed as a serial forger and confidence trickster.
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