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Cookson, John (1712/13?–1783), merchant, glass and iron manufacturer, mine owner, and banker  

J. D. Banham

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Gibbons family (per. c. 1735–1863), ironmasters, colliery proprietors, and bankers  

Chris Evans

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Gibbons family (per. c. 1735–1863), ironmasters, colliery proprietors, and bankers came to prominence with John Gibbons (1703–1778), who was active as an ironmonger by the mid-1730s. By origin the family were yeoman farmers who steadily acquired modest amounts of land in the parish of ...

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Lloyd, Sampson (1699–1779), iron manufacturer and banker  

Jacob M. Price

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Lloyd, Sampson (1699–1779), iron manufacturer and banker, was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1699, the second son and second child in the family of two sons and one daughter of Sampson Lloyd (1664–1725), a Quaker ironmonger, and his second wife, Mary, sister of ...

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Tappenden, James (bap. 1742, d. 1841), lawyer, banker, and ironmaster  

Peter Tann

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Tappenden, James (bap. 1742, d. 1841), lawyer, banker, and ironmaster, was baptized on 13 October 1742 at St Mary's Church, Faversham, Kent, the only surviving child of James Tappenden (1707–1745), hoyman and mayor of Faversham (1743), and his wife, Mary Jones, daughter of ...

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Thompson, William (1793–1854)  

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William Thompson (1793–1854) by Charles Edward Wagstaff (after Henry William Pickersgill, 1840) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Thompson, William (1793–1854), ironmaster and financier  

Martin Daunton

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Thompson, William (1793–1854), ironmaster and financier, was born at Grayrigg Head, near Kendal, Westmorland, the second son of James Thompson. He was educated at Charterhouse before joining the business of his uncle William Thompson, who had been a partner with Richard Crawshay (1744–1799)...