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Arthur Wheeler

Sir Arthur Wheeler, 1st Baronet (1860–1943), English stockbroker and financier

Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts

Muir is a successful stockbroker; Fraser is now a litigator with McMillan LLP in Vancouver, B.C., and Bowman is a well known plastic surgeon in Vancouver, B.C.

Bill W. and Dr. Bob

"In 1929, the famous New York stockbroker William G. Wilson crashed with the stock market and became a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith was a surgeon from Ohio, who had also been an alcoholic for thirty years. In fact, he often went into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob Smith met and formed a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. The two went on to form AA together."

Calvocoressi

Ion Calvocoressi (12 Apr 1919 – 7 Jul 2007), officer in the British Army in the Second World War, later a stockbroker in the City of London; High Sheriff of Kent in 1978-79

Carey Orr

Cartooning ran in the family, as Orr was the uncle of Apple Mary creator Martha Orr, and his grandson is the cartoonist-stockbroker Carey Orr Cook.

Charles E. Carryl

Carryl became a successful businessman and stockbroker, and for 34 years from 1874 he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

Charles Merrill

Charles E. Merrill (1885–1956), American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

Dan Needles

While working as editor for a local newspaper in Shelburne, he created the character of Walt Wingfield, a retired stockbroker turned farmer who told about his adventures on the farm in weekly letters to the editor.

Eddie Chiles

Chiles bought the baseball team Texas Rangers in 1980 and served as chairman of the club until 1989 when he sold the team to group of investors that included the future President of the United States George W. Bush, as well as New York stockbroker Richard Gilder, who later happened to marry Chiles' niece.

Edward Coates

Sir Edward Coates, 1st Baronet (1853–1921), British stockbroker and MP for Lewisham

Frederick Prince

Frederick H. Prince (1859–1953), his son, American stockbroker, investment banker and financier

George Zahringer

George Zahringer III (born April 23, 1953 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an amateur golfer and stockbroker from New York, New York.

Goodbody

Goodbody & Co., a United States stockbroker that faced collapse in 1970 and had to merge into Merrill Lynch

Henry Poor

Henry William Poor (1844-1915), American banker and stockbroker, son of financial analyst Henry Varnum Poor.

Hugh D. Auchincloss

-- pronunciation? -->(August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer who became the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier

Institute for Fiscal Studies

The Institute came into existence because four financiers - a banker and Conservative Party politician (Will Hopper), an investment trust manager (Bob Buist), a stockbroker (Nils Taube) and a tax consultant (John Chown) - were appalled at the way in which the 1965 Finance Act became law.

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Educated at Detroit's exclusive Liggett School for Girls, her family's great wealth brought her in contact with America's social elite and in 1921 she married Manhattan stockbroker, George Sloane.

J. M. Andrews

In 1902 he married Jessie (d. 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England.

James Glencairn Cunningham

Cunningham was from an Ulster family; his father was Samuel Cunningham, and his brothers were Josias Cunningham, stockbroker, Dunlop McCosh Cunningham, owner of Murrays Tobacco Ltd and Sir Knox Cunningham, Bt..

Lorraine Hanlon

Hanlon was born in 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts to stockbroker Gordon B. Hanlon and artist and Harvard art historian Marguerite Pote Hanlon.

Michael DiGiorgio

He worked on BART with Kaiser Sand & Gravel, spent time as a stockbroker, worked for the family business at DiGiorgio Corp., managed Sun Aire commuter airliner out of Palm Springs, California, worked for aircraft speculators out of London, UK before finally moving to Novato in 1989 and purchasing a video store.

Project Ha Ha

It spans a day in the life of an unusual corporate office building, where stockbrokers must construct a method to dispose of the corpse of a lifeless prostitute, a bored worker becomes involved in hip hop music videos, love songs are graphic, and a xenophobic spy stalks them through the corridors.

Ricardo Cortez

When he retired from the film business, Cortez returned to New York, working as a stockbroker for Salomon Brothers on Wall Street.

Richard Shindell

Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing," a World War II soldier in "Sparrow's Point," a Confederate drummerboy in "Arrowhead," an Argentine grandmother in "Abuelita," and a power broker in "Confession."

Ringwood State Park

Skylands Manor, a forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion, was designed in the 1920s by John Russell Pope for Clarence McKensie Lewis, a wealthy stockbroker and civil engineer.

Robert G. Emmens

After his retirement, Robert Emmens returned to Medford, Oregon, his hometown, and worked as a stockbroker and in real estate.

Royal Exchange, London

During the 17th century, stockbrokers were not allowed in the Royal Exchange because of their rude manners, hence they had to operate from other establishments in the vicinity, such as Jonathan's Coffee-House.

Securities fraud

Representative Chesley V. Morton, the only stockbroker in the Georgia General Assembly at the time, was principal sponsor of the bill in the House of Representatives.

Shaun Attwood

Attwood grew up in Widnes, Cheshire a small industrial town in northwest England, but moved to Arizona with the intent of becoming rich working as a stockbroker.

The Enchanted Bluff

Percy is a stockbroker in Kansas City; Otto worked on the railway and has now taken up his father's tailor shop with his brother; Arthur had done nothing with his life.

Tom Chadbon

Though his film work has been more sparse he had a role as one of the werewolf suspects in the 1974 horror film The Beast Must Die, and made a brief appearance as a stockbroker in the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale.

William Coates

Sir William Coates, 1st Baronet (1866–1932), Irish stockbroker, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1920–1923, 1929–1931

Wolfgang Schmidt

Schmidt later moved to San Francisco and became a stockbroker and management consultant.


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