Frederic Wanklyn (1838-1875)
Co-Founder & Managing Director of the Wanklyn Bank, Buenos Aires, Argentina
He was born at Deansgate, Manchester, and came to Argentina in the early 1850s to work in the family firm established by his grandfather in 1822, Bradshaw, Wanklyn & Jordan on San Martin Street, Buenos Aires. He started out as a Broker and financier in the Rio Plata Market before establishing the Mercantile Bank of the River Plate (better known as the Wanklyn Bank) with Edward Lumb, Thomas Armstrong and the Ambrosio Placido Lezica y Lanus Society. From 1870, he lived with his family at the Ambrosio Placida Lezica Villa in Caballito, opposite today's Rivadavia Park. After he died it was rented to General Roca when he became President of Argentina.
