Philip Twopenny
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- Philip: "We are experts in investment. Nothing would be built or improved, nothing would rise above the mock without our hand guiding - No, creating! - the future. They benefit as much as their worth."
- Jacob: "It is their city, not yours."
- Philip: "Without our investments, there would be no city."
- —Philip Twopenny's last words in his assassination, 1868.[src]
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Philip Twopenny (25 January 1827 – 1868) was the Governor of the Bank of England, and a member of the British Rite of the Templar Order. In 1868, using the alias of Plutus, Philip Twopenny made plans to rob the Bank of England.
Suspecting that a robbery was due to occur, having noticed a pattern from previous robberies, Sergeant Frederick Abberline of the Metropolitan Police Service enlisted the aid of the Assassin Jacob Frye, in order to stop the robbery and apprehend Twopenny.
Twopenny was assassinated by Jacob, and word of his death quickly spread throughout the press. This, coupled with the theft of the Bank's printing plates led to the near total collapse of the British economy, through inflation and mistrust of the currency.
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