Matthew Towgood IV (1760/1–1830) was an English banker and industrialist, from about 1808 proprietor of a paper mill near St Neots, then in Huntingdonshire. Background and family He was the son of Matthew Towgood III, son of Michaijah Towgood, a leading figure in Rational Dissent. Michaijah Towgood's grandfather Matthew Towgood I was an ejected minister, and his father was Matthew Towgood MD II (died 1715). Matthew Towgood III Matthew Towgood III in early life was a Presbyterian minister; he then came to London and went into finance. In 1764 he was an insurance broker. The barrister John Baker saw him in 1776 at "Old Lloyd's" (Lloyd's Coffee House, from which Lloyd's of London had moved a couple of years earlier). Around 1777 Towgood was involved in setting up the bank Langston, Polhill, Towgood and Amory, at 29 Clement's Lane, near Lombard Street, London, with partners James Haughton Langston (father of John Langston) and Nathaniel Polhill. The bank continued to trade under related names until 1811, when it merged with the Rogers family bank. The Clement's Lane banker Samuel Amory (died 1799) was grandfather of Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet. Matthew Towgood III was a member of the Repeal Committee of 1786, which lobbied against the Test Acts, as was his son John (died 1837). He attended a dinner on 1 July 1786 given in Clapham by William Smith for John Adams, with two of his sons; other guests there also of the Repeal Committee were Andrew Kippis and Joseph Paice. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, as were his sons John, Matthew IV and William. Family of Matthew Towgood III Matthew Towgood IV had two brothers: John, who married a daughter of Thomas Rogers, and William. All three were bankers. Matthew Towgood III married Mary Mills, sister of the banker John Mills (died 1769). A note to the diary of John Baker gives Matthew Mills of St Kitts as her father (allowing for a mistake Elizabeth for Mary), and lists the children of the marriage as "John William, Matthew, Elizabeth and Mary"; what it cites in The History of Antigua by Vere Langford Oliver clarifies the error and gives five children: "John, Wm, Mathew, Eliz. and Mary". William Towgood was a banker in Bristol, with Savery, Towgood et al., and died in 1835. This bank drew on Smith & Payne, and then Rogers, Towgood & Co.