Don’t forget Leslie O’Brien’s long Bank of England career

Leslie O’Brien (1908-1995) was a delightful man to work for, says Caroline Kay. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

Your article (Andy Haldane: the funnyman central banker who’s not great at maths, 1 October) states incorrectly that if Andy Haldane became governor of the Bank of England, he’d be the first non-Oxbridge governor. How about Leslie O’Brien, governor from 1966 to 1973, who joined the Bank straight from school in 1927 and worked his way to the top through the ranks?

I knew Lord O’Brien in his latter career as chair of the House of Lords committee for which I was clerk, in 1982. He was a delightful man to work for and his watchwords of integrity and prudence would serve many a banker, and indeed many an Oxbridge graduate in public life, very well.
Caroline Kay
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire