1. Andrew McLeod Brooks Large was born in 1942, the son of Major General Stanley Eyre Large, MBE and Janet Mary Brooks.
10 Facts About Andrew Large
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Andrew Large served on the management board of the parent bank in Basel from 1987 to 1989.
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Andrew Large joined Phoenix Securities, the firm behind many of London's post-Big Bang mergers.
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On leaving the SIB, Andrew Large then served as deputy chairman of Barclays Bank from 1998 to 2002, during which he was Chairman of Euroclear, the Brussels-based financial services company and major depository, where he oversaw its change of ownership from being a subsidiary of JPMorgan to becoming a cooperative owned by its 2000 mainly uses member firms.
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In September 2002, Governor of the Bank of England Edward George announced that Andrew Large had accepted an offer to serve as Deputy Governor, a choice some reports described as "unexpected".
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Andrew Large was Chairman of the Senior Advisory Board of Oliver Wyman, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Marshall Wace, a hedge fund.
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Andrew Large was appointed to the Board of Axis Capital, a property and casualty insurer and reinsurer located in Bermuda, where he served as Chair of the Risk Committee.
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Outside his professional career Andrew Large has pursued other interests, notably in education where he was governor of several private schools.
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In 1967, Andrew Large married Susan Melville, daughter of Sir Ronald Melville KCB.
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On 3 April 2012, his wife, Lady Andrew Large, was appointed the new High Sheriff of Powys at a ceremony in Brecon Guildhall.