Bank. Founded as the John and Francis Baring Company. Despite surviving the Great Depression and two world wars, it was brought down due to unauthorized trading by its head derivatives trader Nick Leeson.
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Baring Bros & Co Ltd
London Borough of Lewisham Sir Francis Baring, Bart, MP, 1740-1810, merchant ...
Co-churchwarden of St Jude's in 1871. He was born in 1805 in Scotland. On 10 June 1847 he married Ann Reader (1823-1897) in St Peter and St Paul Church, East Milton Road, Milton-Next-Gravesend, Ke...
Entrepreneur, theatrical impresario. Born as Henryk Loewenfeld in Poland, he emigrated to England in the early 1880s. Hee he produced spot-removing fluid which sold very well, then he opened a pate...
Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see Spitalfields Life.
Founded by Scottish goldsmith, John Campbell, who set up shop at the sign of the Three Crowns on the Strand. In 1755 James Coutts married John Campbell’s granddaughter and the Bank became known as ...
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray, operating only within the City of London, the City of Westminter and Southwark. From 1765 similar ser...
