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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Alexander, Stanley Walter (1895–1980), financial journalist and editor
Anne Pimlott Baker
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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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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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Beeke, Henry (1751–1837), writer on taxation and finance
R. D. Sheldon
Beeke, Henry (1751–1837), writer on taxation and finance, was born at Kingsteignton, Devon, on 6 January 1751, the son of Christopher Beeke, a Church of England clergyman. He was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on May 1769 and was awarded the degrees of BA (1773), MA (1776), BD (1785), and DD (1800). At ...
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Boase, Henry (1763–1827), banker and writer on finance
G. C. Boase
revised by Robert Brown
Boase, Henry (1763–1827), banker and writer on finance, was born at Madron, Cornwall, on 3 June 1763, the fourth son of Arthur Boase (d. 1780) and Jane, daughter of Henry Lugg. He was educated privately in classical languages and French, and in 1779 became a clerk in the office of a relative, ...
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Burgess, Henry (1781–1863), financial journalist and businessman
A. C. Howe
Burgess, Henry (1781–1863), financial journalist and businessman, was born on 7 July 1781 at Grooby Lodge, Railby, Leicestershire, the seventh of the eleven children of Joseph Burgess (1735–1807), farmer and grazier, and Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Airey of Strickland, Kirby Kendal, Westmorland...
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Cleeve, Bourchier (1715–1760), pewterer and writer on finance
Francis Watt
revised by John Brunton
Cleeve, Bourchier (1715–1760), pewterer and writer on finance, was the tenth son of Alexander Cleeve (d. 1738), pewterer, of Cornhill, and his second wife, Anne, daughter of John Bourchier. He married Mary Haydon about 1740; she died on 28 December 1760.
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Cruttwell, Richard (1776–1846), financial writer and Church of England clergyman
W. W. Wroth
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Cruttwell, Richard (1776–1846), financial writer and Church of England clergyman, was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and took the degree of BCL on 13 June 1803. He was at one period chaplain of HMS Trident, and secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander J. Ball...
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Eliot, Francis Perceval (1755–1818), writer on finance and army officer
Francis Watt
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Eliot, Francis Perceval (1755–1818), writer on finance and army officer, was born in September 1755 at Kew Green, Surrey, the second son and third child of Granville Elliott or Eliot, Count Eliot in the nobility of the Palatinate (1713–1759), army officer, and his second wife, ...
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Evans, David Morier (1818–1874), financial journalist
Alsager Vian
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Evans, David Morier (1818–1874), financial journalist, was born in Walbrook, in the city of London, on 27 December 1818, the son of Joshua Lloyd Evans, stationer, of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and his wife, Harriott. His occupation was given as shorthand writer at the time of his marriage, at ...
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Fullarton, John (1780?–1849), traveller and writer on currency
L. C. Sanders
revised by K. D. Reynolds
Fullarton, John (1780
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Law, Thomas (1756–1834), financial writer
Ainslie T. Embree
Law, Thomas (1756–1834), financial writer, was born on 23 October 1756, probably in Cambridge, where his father, Edmund Law (1703–1787), later bishop of Carlisle, was master of Peterhouse. His mother was Mary Christian (1722–1762), from Unerigg in Cumberland. One of Law's seven brothers, ...
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Mortimer, Thomas (1730–1810), writer on trade and finance
Christabel Osborne
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Mortimer, Thomas (1730–1810), writer on trade and finance, was born on 9 December 1730 in Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, the only son of Thomas Mortimer (1706–1741), principal secretary to Sir Joseph Jekyll, master of the rolls, and grandson of John Mortimer (1656?–1736)...
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Noble, John (1827–1892), politician and financial writer
G. J. Holyoake
revised by Matthew Lee
Noble, John (1827–1892), politician and financial writer, was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, on 2 May 1827, the only son of John Noble of Brighton. For seventeen years he was known in east Lincolnshire as an energetic supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League. He moved to ...
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Norman, George Warde (1793–1882), financial writer and merchant banker
A. C. Howe
Norman, George Warde (1793–1882), financial writer and merchant banker, was born on 20 September 1793 at Bromley Common, Kent, the eldest of the nine children of George Norman (1756–1830), timber merchant, and his wife, Charlotte (1766–1853), third daughter of Edward Beadon DD, rector of ...
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Paish, Sir George (1867–1957), financial journalist and economist
Roger Middleton
Paish, Sir George (1867–1957), financial journalist and economist, was born at Morths Gardens, Horsham, Sussex, on 7 November 1867, the tenth son of Robert Paish, a coachman, and his wife, Jane Smith, a domestic servant. After attending the United Westminster schools he began his career in 1881 as an office boy at the weekly ...
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Pennington, James (1777–1862), writer on currency and banking
W. A. S. Hewins
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Pennington, James (1777–1862), writer on currency and banking, born at Kendal, Westmorland, on 23 February 1777, was the son of William Pennington (1745/6–1815), a bookseller, and his wife, Agnes Wilson. Educated first at Kendal grammar school, he afterwards became a pupil of ...
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Postlethwayt, James (1711–1761), writer on finance and demography
Peter Groenewegen
Postlethwayt, James (1711–1761), writer on finance and demography, was born on 29 April 1711 and baptized on 20 May at St Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, the second son of John Postlethwayt (1671–1729), victualler of Limehouse, and his wife, Rebecca, née Blundell (b. 1678)...
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Potter, William (fl. 1650–1651), advocate of paper currency in England
Virginia Hewitt
Potter, William (fl. 1650–1651), advocate of paper currency in England, whose origins are unknown, was one of several writers on trade and money during the Commonwealth. He contributed to the widespread debate on banking and finance in the Tudor and Stuart period. Given his interest in monetary matters, it is possible that this may be the same ...
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