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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Addis, Sir Charles Stewart (1861–1945), banker and government adviser
Roberta Allbert Dayer
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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Alexander [née Barber], Ann (1774/5–1861), banker and bill broker
Gordon Fletcher
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
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
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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Alexander, Stanley Walter (1895–1980), financial journalist and editor
Anne Pimlott Baker
Alexander, Stanley Walter (1895–1980), financial journalist and editor, was born on 16 November 1895 at 35 Harcourt Road, Deptford, London, the son of Walter Henry Alexander, board of works clerk, and his wife, Alice Maude Mary Kemp. He left the Roan School, Greenwich...
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Alsager, Thomas Massa (1779–1846), financial journalist and businessman
Dilwyn Porter
Alsager, Thomas Massa (1779–1846), financial journalist and businessman, was born on 27 September 1779, probably at Southwark, Surrey, the fifth of the nine or ten children of Thomas Alsager (1738?–1790), a setter in the cloth trade, and his wife, Mary, née Crosby (...
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Ames, Jeremiah (1706–1776), banker and merchant
Iain S. Black
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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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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Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980), civil servant and banker
Kevin Theakston
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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Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915–1980)
Maker: Arnold Newman
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Arthur, Sir Daniel (1620s?–1705), banker
Priscilla O'Connor
Arthur, Sir Daniel (1620s
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Attwood, Thomas (1783–1856)
Maker: Benjamin Robert Haydon
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Attwood, Thomas (1783–1856), politician and currency theorist
Clive Behagg
Attwood, Thomas (1783–1856), politician and currency theorist, was born on 6 October 1783 at Hawne House, near Halesowen, Shropshire, the third son and fifth child of Matthias Attwood (1746–1836), banker, and his wife, Ann Adams (1752–1835), the daughter of Thomas Adams of Cakemore...
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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 ...
