, eldest dau., heir of her grandfather Robert Child. Head of Child's bank. A short history of Child & Co Francis Child's grandson Robert became senior partner in the business in 1763. When he died in 1782 he left no sons to inherit the business, and so the family fortune was settled upon his granddaughter, Sarah Sophia Fane. Sarah, an infant at the time of her inheritance, went on to marry the 5th Earl of Jersey and, upon coming of age in 1806, became senior partner of the bank; a role she was to fulfil for the next 61 years. Throughout that period, Child & Co remained extremely conservative in its outlook and activities, and is believed to have provided a model for the quaint Tellson's Bank in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities