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unusual facts about merchant banker



Howard Potter

On both sides he came from New England Puritan stock of English descent, and counted among his distinguished relatives Nathan Hale, the patriot schoolmaster, and other noted New Englanders, the Rev. Joel Benedict of Connecticut, his maternal great grandfather, and the brother-in-law of Mr. James Brown; Rt.

Louis Huth

Louis Huth was born at Finsbury in London, the son of Frederick Huth (1774-1864), a merchant and merchant banker born in Germany, who 'came of very humble origins, the son of a soldier without rank, with only his intelligence and appetite for hard work to single him out from other poor boys at the bottom of the social heap in the small village of Harsefeld in the Electorate of Hanover.


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Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington

Thomas Raikes ("the Younger") (3 October 1777 – 3 July 1848) a British merchant banker, dandy and diarist was a close childhood friend, traveling and gambling companion of Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington.

Charles Asgill

Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet (1713–1788), merchant banker and Lord Mayor of London (1757–1758)

Edward Hobson

Edward H. Hobson (1825–1901), merchant, banker, politician and officer in the United States Army

John Baring

John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton (born 1928), British merchant banker and former chairman of BP

Lincoln by-election, 1973

The Conservatives considered three candidates: Desmond Fennell, a Lincoln-born barrister, Robert V. Jackson, a journalist, and merchant banker Hon. Jonathan Guinness who was chairman of the Monday Club on the party's right-wing.

Mark Collet

Sir Mark Collet, 1st Baronet (1816–1905), English merchant, banker and baronet

Philipp Hainhofer

Philipp Hainhofer (21 July 1578 – 1647) was a merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector in Augsburg.

Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1729 – 5 August 1809), of Gatton in Surrey, was an English merchant banker, chairman of the East India Company and Member of Parliament, who bankrupted himself through unwise speculations.

William Stairs

William Machin Stairs (1789–1865), Canadian merchant, banker and statesman