Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley

Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC ( born April 29, 1766 London, † February 8, 1851 in Kent ) was a German-born British politician and statesman.

Nicholas Vansittart, a son coming from Gdansk and übergesiedelten to the UK family, was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1791 Barrister, but was principally concerned with political and financial issues and has published several writings about it. As resolute Tory government in 1796 made ​​him choose for Hastings to parliament and sent him beginning in 1801 to Copenhagen to deduct the Danish court of the Northern Alliance, which he did not succeed.

In 1804 he was Secretary to the Treasury, Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1805, then went back to the Treasury and effect as such in 1810, the suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England to the closed peace. According to Spencer Perceval's death, he became in 1812 the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool called. He first had to make sure it is the transition to a peacetime economy coupled with tax cuts that had forced Parliament to finance the last years of the war. Vansittart had held this office through more than ten years with such success that he left his successor an excess of 7 million pounds sterling in the state finances.

On 1 March 1823 he was elevated to the title of Baron Bexley, of Bexley, Kent, the peer and appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 1828 resigned from the civil service with a pension of 3000 pounds sterling, he devoted his work from now on mainly the management of charitable and religious institutions.

Vansittart died on February 8, 1851 at his country estate Foots Cray in Kent. His noble title became extinct, as he had with his wife Isabella, a daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, no male offspring.