Occupation

Gramps ID E0796
Date from 1845 to 1850
Description Shareholder, National Provincial Bank of England: pioneering joint-stock bank, focus of new trend for middle-class investment in equities, predecessor of NatWest. Not mentioned in his rabble-rousing speeches about his rise from nothing...

Narrative

Wider Share Ownership?: Investors in English and Welsh Bank Shares in the Nineteenth Century by John D. Turner is good. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20543011

 

 

Source References

  1. The London Gazette [S0099]
      • Date: 10/2/1847
      • Page: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oe9MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA666
  2. TGEA: TGEA press clippings [S0014]
      • Page: 1845-50