Acworth, Angus Whiteford (1898–1981), financier and conservationist, was born on 20 October 1898 at Braeside, Shoot Up Hill, Cricklewood, London, the only son and second of the four children of Joseph John Acworth (1853–1927), businessman, and his wife, Marion Whiteford, née Stevenson (1870–1964)...
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Acworth, Angus Whiteford (1898–1981), financier and conservationist
Simon Swynfen Jervis
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Andrewes, Sir Thomas (d. 1659), financier and regicide
A. W. McIntosh
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Andrewes, Sir Thomas (d. 1659), financier and regicide, was the son of Robert Andrewes of Feltham, Middlesex, a Plymouth adventurer and subscriber to the Massachusetts Bay Company, and his wife, Margaret. He was a member of the Leathersellers' Company (and its master in 1638–9), and from 1631 ran a wholesale linen drapery business at the ...
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Andrewes, Sir Thomas (d. 1659)
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Sir Thomas Andrewes (d. 1659) by unknown artist private collection
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Audley, Hugh (bap. 1577, d. 1662), moneylender
John Considine
Audley, Hugh (bap. 1577, d. 1662), moneylender, was baptized on 13 January 1577 at St Michael, Wood Street, London, the tenth of the eleven children of John Audley (d. 1577?), mercer, and his wife, Maudlin or Margaret (d. 1594), daughter of ...
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Backhouse, Jonathan (1779–1842), banker and financier
M. W. Kirby
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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Bailey, Sir Abraham [Abe], first baronet (1864–1940), financier and politician in South Africa
Maryna Fraser
Bailey, Sir Abraham [Abe], first baronet (1864–1940), financier and politician in South Africa, was born at Cradock, Cape Colony, on 6 November 1864, the only son of Thomas Bailey (d. 1905) of Keighley, Yorkshire, a shopkeeper of Queenstown, which he represented in the ...
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Baillieu, Clive Latham, first Baron Baillieu (1889–1967), businessman and mining financier
Simon J. Potter
Baillieu, Clive Latham, first Baron Baillieu (1889–1967), businessman and mining financier, was born at Melbourne, Australia, on 24 September 1889, the eldest son of William Lawrence Baillieu (1859–1936) and his wife, Bertha Martha Latham (1865–1925). He was educated at Melbourne Church of England grammar school...
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Ball, Alan James (1945–2007), footballer and football manager
Tony Mason
Ball, Alan James (1945–2007), footballer and football manager, was born on 12 May 1945 at 2 Brookhouse Avenue, Farnworth, Lancashire, the son of (James) Alan Ball, builder's joiner, later publican, and his wife, Violet, née Duckworth. His father was an occasional professional footballer with ...
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Ball, Alan James (1945–2007)
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Alan James Ball (1945–2007) by Bob Thomas, 1975 Bob Thomas / Getty Images
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Bancroft, Francis (1667–1728), financial agent and benefactor
Andrew Phillips
Bancroft, Francis (1667–1728), financial agent and benefactor, was born in Spitalfields, London, on 26 October 1667, the second son of John Bancroft (bap. 1614, d. 1705), a City financier who became serjeant-carver to the lord mayor, and his second wife, Rebecka Cole (...
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Banks, Sir John, baronet (bap. 1627, d. 1699), merchant and financier
D. C. Coleman
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Banks, Sir John, baronet (bap. 1627, d. 1699), merchant and financier, was baptized at the parish church of All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, on 19 August 1627. He was the eldest in the family of two sons and one daughter of Caleb Banks of ...
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Barnato, Barnett Isaacs (1852–1897)
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Barnett Isaacs Barnato (1852–1897) by Warren © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Barnato, Barnett Isaacs [Barney] (1852–1897), diamond merchant and financier
Colin Newbury
Barnato, Barnett Isaacs [Barney] (1852–1897), diamond merchant and financier, born on 5 July 1852 at Aldgate, London, was the second son of the five children of Isaac Isaacs, shopkeeper, and Leah Isaacs (said to be related to the master of the rolls, Sir George Jessel...
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Beit, Sir Otto John, first baronet (1865–1930), financier, philanthropist, and art connoisseur
Maryna Fraser
Beit, Sir Otto John, first baronet (1865–1930), financier, philanthropist, and art connoisseur, was born on 7 December 1865 in Hamburg, Germany, twelve years after his brother Alfred Beit. He was the third son of Siegfried Beit (1818–1881), silk merchant, and his wife, Laura Caroline Hahn (...
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Sir Otto John Beit, first baronet (1865–1930) by H. Walter Barnett © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bell, (Alexander) Scott (1941–2007), insurance and financial services executive
Michael S. Moss
Bell, (Alexander) Scott (1941–2007), insurance and financial services executive, was born on 4 December 1941 at Dunrowan, Falkirk, the son of William Scott Bell, physician, and his wife, (Catherine) Irene Alexandra, née Traill. He was educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh. After leaving school at the age of seventeen he went to work as a trainee actuary for the ...
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Benfield, Paul (1741–1810), financier in India
P. J. Marshall
Benfield, Paul (1741–1810), financier in India, was baptized on 25 January 1741 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was the eldest son of John Benfield (d. in or before 1767), carpenter and joiner, of Cheltenham, and of his wife, Anne, daughter of the Revd Stephen Cull...
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Berry, (Henry) Seymour, Baron Buckland (1877–1928), financier and coal industrialist
John Williams
Berry, (Henry) Seymour, Baron Buckland (1877–1928), financier and coal industrialist, was born at 73 Lower Thomas Street, Merthyr Tudful, on 17 September 1877, the eldest of three sons of John Mathias Berry (d. 1917), JP, estate agent and valuer, of Gwaelod-y-garth, Merthyr Tudful...
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Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis [Henry Louis] (1829–1908), financier
Pat Thane
Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis [Henry Louis] (1829–1908), financier, was born in Amsterdam, the younger of the two sons of Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim (1800–1873), banker, and his wife, Amélie, née Goldschmidt. His grandfather, Raphael Nathan, had migrated to Mainz in the eighteenth century from Bischofsheim...
