Burt, Edmund (d. 1755), author and rent collector, is known to have been born in England and in 1725 to have referred to his wife's being in London. On 31 May of the same year he was appointed receiver-general and collector of rents on the unsold forfeited estates in ...
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Burt, Edmund (d. 1755), author and rent collector
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Grogan, William (1824–1891), estate agent
M. H. Port
Grogan, William (1824–1891), estate agent, was born on 3 August 1824 in Pollen Street, Westminster, the son of Nicholas Grogan (d. c.1845), tea dealer and wine merchant, and his wife, Sarah Bean. He may have been the William Grogan who was briefly in partnership about 1848–9 with ...
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Harper, Sir Edgar Josiah (1860–1934), land valuer and civil servant
Brian Short
Harper, Sir Edgar Josiah (1860–1934), land valuer and civil servant, was born on 15 January 1860 at 11 Beaumont Square, Mile End, London, the third son of Henry Harper, a merchant's clerk, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Burletson (b. 1826?). He was educated privately in ...
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Levy, Joseph (1906–1990), property developer and estate agent
Peter Scott
Levy, Joseph (1906–1990), property developer and estate agent, was born on 27 January 1906 at 1 Mansell Road, Acton, Middlesex, the youngest of the five children of David Edward Levy, then a hotel waiter, and his wife, Ellen Kate Twine. David Levy was later described as a manufacturer's agent and as a bookmaker. ...
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Lisle, Aubrey Edwin Orchard- (1908–1989), commercial estate agent
Peter Scott
Lisle, Aubrey Edwin Orchard- (1908–1989), commercial estate agent, was born on 12 March 1908, at Crediton, Devon, the second of four sons of Edwin Orchard-Lisle and his wife, Lucy Ellen Lock. He was educated at West Buckland School, north Devon, and later attended the ...
