Peter Urbanus Sartoris (French: Pierre-Urbain Sartoris; –1833)William Calverley Curteis, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons, Saunders and Benning, 1840, p. 910Compte général de l'administration des finances, Ministère de l'économie et des finances, 1838. was a British banker of Genevan origin who had offices in London and Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
Biography Born around 1767 in Geneva, Republic of 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 PlaceThe Monthly Magazine, 1813, Volume 35, p. 455. close to Regent's Park, and married in 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.Histoire des rues de La Garenne-Colombes, 2010, p. 10.
In January 1809 he was naturalised as a British subject by a private act of Parliament, (49 Geo. 3. c. 9 ).Sartoris' Naturalization Act passed 19 January 1809; 46 Geo. 3 c. 9 Pr.
Shortly after 1818, he acted as first consul of the Swiss Confederacy in the United Kingdom, then was succeeded by Alexandre PrévostOlivier Perroux, Tradition, vocation et progrès: les élites bourgeoises de Genève (1814-1914), p. 175. 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'.Geneva State Archives, Journal d'Alexandre Prévost, MS Fr. 4756, p. 26.
During the French Restoration, Sartoris moved to France and invested millions of francs in inland waterways. He bought a manor house at Sceaux.Rapport au Roi sur la situation des canaux (1831). He also bought the estates of la Garenne de Colombes, which his inheritors sold by pieces around 1865.
He died in Paris on 30 November 1833.
Family Peter and Hester Sartoris had six children:Bulletin des lois de la Republique Francaise (1835), No. 139, p. 671. (In French) 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)"Alfred Urbain Sartoris (1826-1909), Army officer and magistrate". National Portrait Gallery. Jules-Alexandre Sartoris (1831–1863)
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