Alexander [née Barber], Ann (1774/5–1861), banker and bill broker, was born in Eckington, Derbyshire, the daughter of William and Mary Barber. Little is known about her life until the point when, while working in a Quaker milliner's in the City of London...
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William J. Ashworth
Baily, Francis (1774–1844), stockbroker and astronomer, was born at Newbury, Berkshire, on 28 April 1774, the third son of Richard Baily (1744–1814), a banker, and his wife, Sarah Head (1745–1823). At the age of fourteen, following his education at the old grammar school in ...
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Francis Baily (1774–1844) by Thomas Goff Lupton (after Thomas Phillips, 1837) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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John P. Campbell
Bevan, John Henry (1894–1978), intelligence officer and stockbroker, was born on 5 April 1894, at 4 Lower Berkeley Street, London, the younger son of David Augustus Bevan (1856–1937), stockbroker, and his wife, the Hon. Dame Maude Elizabeth Bevan (1856–1944). Educated at Eton College...
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Margaret Steven
Boyd, Benjamin (1801–1851), stockbroker and entrepreneur, was born on 21 August 1801, in the parish of St Peter Le Poer, London, second son of Edward Boyd (1770–1846), merchant, and his wife, Janet (1778–1858), daughter of Benjamin Yule, of Wheatfield, Midlothian. By 1808 the family had moved from ...
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Braithwaite, Sir John Bevan (1884–1973), stockbroker, was born on 22 November 1884 at Islington, London, the younger son of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1855–1934), a stockbroker, and his wife, Anna Sophia Gillett. Both parents belonged to long-established and well-connected Quaker families. John was educated at ...
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Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1855–1934), stockbroker, was born on 5 October 1855 at 65 Mornington Road, Regent's Park, London, one of the three sons and six daughters of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818–1905), barrister, and his wife, Martha Gillett (1823–1895), daughter of a Banbury banker. Both the ...
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Bunting, John (1839–1923), sharebroker and cotton spinner, was born on 28 December 1839 at Carrington Field, Stockport, the son of John Bunting (1806–1853), a brick maker, and his wife, Kerenhappuch, née Hill. He grew up in the new railway town of Crewe, attended a private school in the village of ...
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Philip Cazenove (1798–1880) by unknown engraver, 1851 Cazenove & Co.; photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Judy Slinn
Cazenove, Philip (1798–1880), stockbroker, was born on 23 November 1798 at Walthamstow, Essex, the fourth son of James Cazenove (1744–1827), merchant, and his wife, Marie-Anne Sophie Houssemayne Du Boulay. Of Huguenot descent James Cazenove was born in Geneva and emigrated to England where he established his own business. He became a naturalized Englishman in 1778 and three years later married ...
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Bernard Attard
Durlacher, Sir Esmond Otho (1901–1982), stockjobber, was born on 8 October 1901 at Thorpe Satchville, Leicester, the second of three children of Frederick Henry Durlacher (1859–1936), stockjobber, and his wife, Violet, daughter of Sir Reginald Hanson of Thorpe Satchville. The family was of German-Jewish origin, settling in ...
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Gordon, Henry [Harry] Panmure (1837–1902), stockbroker, was born on 22 October 1837 at Killiechassie, Perthshire, the son of Henry George Gordon, a director of the Union Bank of London. Baptized Panmure-Gordon, he dropped the hyphen from his name later in life, and was universally known as ...
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Henderson, Alexander, first Baron Faringdon (1850–1934), stockbroker and financier, was born at 25 Upper Winchester Street, Islington, London on 28 September 1850, the second son of the six sons and three daughters of George Henderson, printer, proof corrector, and Greek and Hebrew scholar, of ...
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Bernard Attard
Hoare, Christopher [Kit] Gurney (1882–1973), stockbroker, was born on 29 May 1882 at Mill Field House, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, the second son of Robert Gurney Hoare (1844–1899), banker, and his wife, Anne Hoare. The Gurney Hoares combined two Quaker families, the greater being the ...
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Koch de Gooreynd [formerly Koch], William Julien Maurice (1853–1919), stockbroker, was born on 14 October 1853, the second son of Franciscus Josephus Koch (b. 1815) and Josephine Emile de Laska of Belgium. He settled in Britain, probably at Brighton, some time prior to 1877. In that year he joined the ...
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Judy Slinn
Micklem, Charles (1882–1955), stockbroker, was born on 17 January 1882 at The Lodge, Herne Hill, London, the fifth of eight sons of Leonard Micklem and his wife, Dora Emily, née Weguelin. Leonard Micklem appears to have been a country gentleman of leisure until the 1880s, when (probably because of the demands of his large family) he went into the ...
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Nickalls, Thomas [Tom] (1828–1899), stock jobber, was the elder son of Patteson Nickalls (d. 1868). His younger brother was Sir Patteson Nickalls (1836–1910), a renowned pro-Boer Liberal and fellow stock jobber. Almost nothing is known about his early life, except that aged five he accompanied his father, a corn dealer, to ...
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Nivison, Robert, first Baron Glendyne (1849–1930), stockbroker, was born on 3 July 1849 at Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, the eldest of five sons of John Nivison (1824–1898), a colliery manager, and Janet, daughter of James Hair, of Sanquhar. His two sisters never married. He was educated at a private school in his home town, and at the age of fifteen became a junior at the ...
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Dianne Sachko Macleod
Plint, Thomas Edward (1823–1861), stockbroker and art collector, was born in Leeds, the son of Thomas Plint, woollen merchant and radical reformer. His father was co-founder, with Samuel Smiles, J. G. Marshall, and Homer Stansfield, of the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association, which advocated household suffrage. A Liberal, like his father, ...
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Ritchie, John Kenneth, third Baron Ritchie of Dundee (1902–1975), stockbroker, was born on 22 September 1902 at 52 Earls Court Square, London, the second of the five children of Charles Ritchie, second Baron Ritchie of Dundee (1866–1948), chairman of the Port of London Authority...
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