Author: Charles William Frederick Goss
Publisher: London : D. Archer
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The London Directories, 1677-1855
Author: Charles William Frederick Goss
Publisher: London : D. Archer
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: London : D. Archer
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Siblys of London
Author: Susan Sommers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
The London Directory, for the Year 1789;
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture,
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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A Handbook of London Bankers: with Some Account of Their Predecessors, the Early Goldsmiths
Author: Frederick George Hilton Price
Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A handbook of London bankers, with some account of their predecessors, the early goldsmiths. Together with lists of bankers from the earliest one printed in 1677
Author: Frederick George Hilton Price
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis
Author: Paul Kosmetatos
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319709089
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith’s references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the 1772-3 financial crisis was an important historical episode in its own right, taking place during a pivotal period in the development of financial capitalism and coinciding with the start of the traditional industrialisation narrative. It was also one of the earliest purely financial crises occurring in peacetime, and its progress showed an impressive geographical reach, involving England, Scotland, the Netherlands and the North American colonies. This book uses a variety of previously unpublished archival sources to question the bubble narrative usually associated with this crisis, and to identify the mechanisms of financial contagion that allowed the failure of a small private bank in London to cause rapid and severe distress throughout the 18th century financial system. It re-examines the short and turbulent career of the Ayr Bank, and concludes that its failure was the result of cavalier liability management akin to that of Northern Rock in 2007, rather than the poor asset quality alleged in existing literature. It furthermore argues that the Bank of England’s prompt efforts to contain the crisis are evidence of a Lender of Last Resort in action, some thirty years before the classical formulation of the concept by Henry Thornton.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319709089
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith’s references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the 1772-3 financial crisis was an important historical episode in its own right, taking place during a pivotal period in the development of financial capitalism and coinciding with the start of the traditional industrialisation narrative. It was also one of the earliest purely financial crises occurring in peacetime, and its progress showed an impressive geographical reach, involving England, Scotland, the Netherlands and the North American colonies. This book uses a variety of previously unpublished archival sources to question the bubble narrative usually associated with this crisis, and to identify the mechanisms of financial contagion that allowed the failure of a small private bank in London to cause rapid and severe distress throughout the 18th century financial system. It re-examines the short and turbulent career of the Ayr Bank, and concludes that its failure was the result of cavalier liability management akin to that of Northern Rock in 2007, rather than the poor asset quality alleged in existing literature. It furthermore argues that the Bank of England’s prompt efforts to contain the crisis are evidence of a Lender of Last Resort in action, some thirty years before the classical formulation of the concept by Henry Thornton.
Catalogue of the Library of the City Liberal Club
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Handbook of London Bankers; with some account of ... the early Goldsmiths. Together with lists of bankers, from ... 1677 to ... 1876
Author: Frederick George Hilton PRICE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Medical Directory for Ireland
Author:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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