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Addis, Sir Charles Stewart (1861–1945), banker and government adviser  

Roberta Allbert Dayer

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23 September 2004
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Addis, Sir Charles Stewart (1861–1945), banker and government adviser, was born on 23 November 1861 in Edinburgh, the youngest of twelve children of the Revd Thomas Addis (1813–1899), a Free Church of Scotland minister, and his wife, Robina, daughter of a tea merchant in ...

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Aimer, Philippe (fl. 1180–1181)  

N. J. Mayhew

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Alexander [née Barber], Ann (1774/5–1861), banker and bill broker  

Gordon Fletcher

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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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Alexander, George William (1802–1890), banker and philanthropist  

Gordon Fletcher

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Alexander, George William (1802–1890), banker and philanthropist, was born on 25 April 1802 in Bunhill Row, London, the first of nine children, eight of whom survived to maturity, of William Alexander (1769–1819), bill broker, and his wife, Ann Alexander, née Barber (1774/5–1861), of ...

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Alexander, Robert Scott [Bob], Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister and banker  

Michael Beloff

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07 March 2013
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08 January 2009

Alexander, Robert Scott [Bob], Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister and banker, was born on 5 September 1936 at 12B Kingsway West, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, the son of Samuel James Alexander, motor engineer and garage proprietor, and his wife, Hannah May, née...

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Allan, Robert (1806–1863), advocate and banker  

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Ames, Jeremiah (1706–1776), banker and merchant  

Iain S. Black

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Ames, Jeremiah (1706–1776), banker and merchant, was born on 20 July 1706 at Evercreech, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, one of eight children of Levi Ames (d. 1726), grocer, and his first wife, Hannah (d. 1711), daughter of John Watts of Doulting, Somerset...

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Ames, Levi (bap. 1739, d. 1820), banker and merchant  

Iain S. Black

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Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980)  

Maker: Arnold Newman

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William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980) by Arnold Newman, 1978 Arnold Newman / Getty Images; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

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Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980), civil servant and banker  

Kevin Theakston

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Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980), civil servant and banker, was born in the Salvation Mothers' Home, Mare Street, Clapton, London, on 3 March 1915, the elder son of William Armstrong, of Stirling, and his wife, Priscilla Hopkins. Both his parents were ...

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Arthur, Sir Daniel (1620s?–1705), banker  

Priscilla O'Connor

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Arthur, Sir Daniel (1620s?–1705), banker, was born in co. Clare or in co. Limerick, Ireland, the son of Daniel Arthur, a Catholic merchant, and his wife, Joan (née Arthur), presumably a kinswoman. The younger Daniel Arthur was a successful merchant, with property in ...

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Bachelor, Richard (fl. 1235)  

N. J. Mayhew

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Backhouse, Jonathan (1779–1842), banker and financier  

M. W. Kirby

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Backhouse, Jonathan (1779–1842), banker and financier, was born in Darlington, co. Durham, the eldest son of Jonathan Backhouse (1747–1826), banker, and his wife, Ann (d. 1826), the second daughter of Edward Pease of Darlington. Jonathan senior was the eldest of three sons of ...

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Backwell, Edward (c. 1619–1683)  

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Edward Backwell (c. 1619–1683) by unknown engraver, pubd 1797 © Copyright The British Museum

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Backwell, Edward (c. 1619–1683), goldsmith and banker  

G. E. Aylmer

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Backwell, Edward (c. 1619–1683), goldsmith and banker, the son of Barnaby Backwell of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, a yeoman, was apprenticed in 1635 to Thomas Vyner, a leading goldsmith. He became free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1651, of which he was to be prime warden in 1660....

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Baillie, James Evan (1781?–1863), merchant, banker, and politician  

Kenneth Morgan

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Baillie, James Evan (1781?–1863), merchant, banker, and politician, was born in Bristol, probably in 1781, into a successful Scottish merchant-planter family that had settled in Bristol in the 1770s. He was baptized at St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, on 26 June 1782, the third but second surviving son of ...

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Barclay, David (1729–1809)  

Maker: Houghton

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Barclay, David (1729–1809), banker and brewer  

Jacob M. Price

revised by Leslie Hannah

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Barclay, David (1729–1809), banker and brewer, was the younger son of David Barclay (1682–1769), Quaker merchant, and his second wife, Priscilla, daughter of John Freame, banker, of Lombard Street. David and his brother John became partners in their father's linen and merchant house in ...

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Barde, Walter (fl. 1360–1390)  

N. J. Mayhew

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Barff, Samuel (1793–1880), philhellene and banker  

J. M. Hussey

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Barff, Samuel (1793–1880), philhellene and banker, was born at Carlton juxta Snaith, Yorkshire, on 28 August 1793, the son of William Barff (1743-1833) and his wife Ann Staveley (1759-1800). In 1816 he established himself in Zante, in the Ionian islands, Greece...