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33: 380:. He died in 1748. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Abraham, who had also been a member of parliament at the time of his father's disgrace, but never sat again after the end of that Parliament. Each of the three brothers inherited the baronetcy in turn, as none had any sons; the elder two died unmarried, in 1765 and 1766 respectively. His daughter Barbara married Governor 260: 77: 242:, the first two directors to be summoned, had been heard, a motion was proposed and passed unanimously that both "were guilty of a notorious Breach of Trust, as Directors of the SouthSea Company, and thereby occasion'd very great Loss to great Numbers of his Majesty's Subjects, and had highly prejudic'd the publick Credit". 245:
They were statutorily disqualified from sitting in Parliament or holding public office and their assets confiscated to make reparations to the investors ruined in the crash. Janssen was allowed to keep £50,000, a much-higher proportion than most of the other directors.
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Sir Theodore continued to live quietly in Wimbledon after he was stripped of the manor in 1721, next to the present day Wimbledon Village High St. He died in 1748 and is buried in the churchyard of
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By 1720, Janssen had accumulated a fortune of almost quarter of a million pounds. However, among his business interests had been the
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Sir Theodore Janssen, possibly with fellow founders of the South Sea Company. c.1720 Attributed to William Hogarth
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who, after a long and successful career in commerce, was ruined and disgraced by his part in the
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He married Williamza or Williamsa Henley (died 2 September 1731) on 26 January 1698 at
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He was naturalised as an English subject in 1685, and later knighted by
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Janssen is a central character in Robert Goddard's historical novel
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on 26 February 1698. In 1694 he was a founder-member of the
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French-born English financier and member of parliament
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A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament
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Expelled members of the Parliament of Great Britain
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Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet

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