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Elizabeth Dobrée nee Hankey (1756-1816)
Eldest daughter of Joseph Chaplin Hankey, Elizabeth was baptised on 9 Jan 1756 at St Katherine Colman. She was married on 2 Dec 1786 at St Dionis Backchurch to Samuel Dobrée (1759-1827) of Walthamstow. Samuel was a merchant and banker whose firm was Samuel Dobrée & Sons, of New Court, Old Broad Street, specializing in mainly financial transactions connected with Channel Islands trade. Samuel was a Merchant Taylor, and was Master in 1806.
Samuel Dobrée was a bibliophile and collector of prints. He was an important early patron of the artist JMW Turner, and owned, with other sea-pieces by Turner, Sheerness as seen from the Nore which he probably purchased directly from the artist in 1808. He also commissioned works by Morland and Wilkie, with whom he was on friendly terms.
Their sixth son Bonamy Dobrée (1794-1863) was probably the Dobrée who at one time worked at Hankey’s Bank in Fenchurch Street (‘an unpromising person’ according to Matilda Hartsinck) He was a director of the Bank of England 1835-63 and governor 1859-61, at much the same time as his third cousin Thomson Hankey.
Elizabeth Dobrée died on 30 Apr 1816. A memorial to her (formerly at St Dionis Backchurch and at All Hallows’, Lombard Street) is at All Hallows’, Twickenham.