ONGLEY, Sir Samuel (1647-1726), of Old Warden, Beds. and Mincing Lane, London

Freeman, Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1670, livery 1672, asst. 1699, master 1706; common councilman, London 1689, 1691–3; ?sea-coal meter and corn meter, London by 1699–?1721; sheriff, Beds. 1703–4. Guildhall Lib. MF 324; J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London (London and Mdx. Arch. Soc.), 123; R. T. D. Sayle, Brief Hist. Merchant Taylors’ Co. 60; Proposals by the 14 Coal-Meeters . . . (n.d.).

?Member, Co. of R. Corp. of London, 1691, ?R. Fishery Co. [I] 1691; dir. E. I. Co. 1693–8; dep. gov. S. Sea Co. 1711, dir. 1712–15. CSP Dom. 1690–1, pp. 463, 474; 1691–2, p. 4; India Office Lib. H.O. Misc. Mss. 762; J. Carswell, S. Sea Bubble, 282.

Commr. taking subscriptions to Bank of England 1694, ?Greenwich Hosp. 1695–bef. 1704, land bank 1696, S. Sea Co. 1711. NLS, Advocates’ mss, Bank of England pprs. 31.1.7, f. 146; Add. 10120, f. 236; CJ, xii. 510; Pittis, Present Parl. 351.

Commr. lottery 1711. Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 709.