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Chamier, Anthony (1725–1780), financier and government official  

W. P. Courtney

revised by S. J. Skedd

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Chamier, Anthony (1725–1780), financier and government official, was born on 6 October 1725 and baptized on 19 October 1725 at the French Huguenot chapel in Threadneedle Street, London, the fifth of the nine children of Daniel Chamier (1696–1741), merchant, and Susanne de la Mejanelle (1701/2–1787)...

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Davenant, Charles (1656–1714), government official and political economist  

Julian Hoppit

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Davenant, Charles (1656–1714), government official and political economist, was born in London on 17 November 1656, the eldest son of Sir William Davenant (1606–1668), the poet and playwright, and his third wife, French-born Henrietta Maria du Tremblay (d. 1691). He went to school in ...

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Fox, Sir Stephen (1627–1716), financier and government official  

Michael J. Braddick

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Fox, Sir Stephen (1627–1716), financier and government official, was born in Farley, Wiltshire, the seventh of ten children of William Fox (d. 1652) and his wife, Margaret Pavey. His parents were of modest wealth and seem to have lived on the lower margins of gentility. ...

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Kalecki, Michał (1899–1970), economist and policy adviser  

Malcolm Sawyer

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Kalecki, Michał (1899–1970), economist and policy adviser, was born on 22 June 1899 into a Polish-Jewish family in Łódź, now in Poland, then occupied by Russia. He was the only child of Abram Kalecki (d. 1933), the owner of a small cotton mill, and his wife, ...

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Kindersley, Robert Molesworth, first Baron Kindersley (1871–1954), merchant banker and organizer of the National Savings movement  

John Orbell

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Kindersley, Robert Molesworth, first Baron Kindersley (1871–1954), merchant banker and organizer of the National Savings movement, was born at the Clock House, Wanstead, Essex, on 20 November 1871, the third of eight children and second son of Captain Edward Nassau Molesworth Kindersley (1836–1907)...

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Nesbitt, John (1745/6–1817)  

Janet H. Stevenson

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

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Salmon, Brian Lawson (1917–2001), businessman and public servant  

Richard A. Storey

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05 March 2009
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06 January 2005

Salmon, Brian Lawson (1917–2001), businessman and public servant, was born on 30 June 1917 at 127 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, the son of Julius Salmon, caterer, then serving as a lieutenant on the army staff, and his wife, Emma Constance, née Gluckstein. He was a member of a talented, entrepreneurial Jewish family, linked in marriage and business with the ...

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Taylor, Thomas Johnston [Tom], Baron Taylor of Gryfe (1912–2001), businessman and public servant  

Tam Dalyell

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05 March 2009
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06 January 2005

Taylor, Thomas Johnston [Tom], Baron Taylor of Gryfe (1912–2001), businessman and public servant, was born on 27 April 1912 at 52 Lambhill Street, Glasgow, the son of John Sharp Taylor (d. 1915), engine fitter and organizing secretary of the Independent Labour Party...