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151:, with the Gurneys supplying the capital. At that time bill discounting was carried on sporadically by ordinary merchants in addition to their regular business, but Richardson thought there was room for a London house that would concern itself entirely with trading in bills. This novel idea proved an instant success. On his father's death in 1809, Samuel Gurney assumed the control of the
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542:., which Gurney had brought to a position of unexampled wealth and influence, after passing into less competent hands, was reorganised as a joint-stock company in August 1865, but failed on 10 May 1866, when its liabilities amounted to £11 million, ruining some of the Gurneys as well as numerous other investors. However, Gurney's Bank and most of the Gurney family escaped losses.
746:: "Captain Henry Trotter commanded the British government expedition devised by The Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilisation of Africa. The plan was to establish trade with African rulers so that, having an alternative source of wealth, they would be more willing to give up selling slaves. The expedition succumbed to tropical fever and was aborted."
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The wealth that came to Gurney from his father-in-law and what was bequeathed to him by his father, helped him to make rapid progress as a partner in
Richardson and Overend, with which he had become connected in 1807. The business had been founded in 1800 by Thomas Richardson, a clerk to a London
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now began depositing their surplus cash in its hands. At the time of Gurney's death in 1856, it was calculated that the house held deposits amounting to £8 million sterling. Nonetheless, the bank collapsed in 1866, owing millions.
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for the improvement of prison discipline and the reform of the criminal code. He refused to prosecute a man who had forged his name, knowing well that death was the punishment for such an offence.
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in London and he was a prime figure in the painting which is now in the
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on 19 June, when an immense concourse of people attended the funeral. He left nine children and upwards of forty grandchildren, but his eldest son,
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in the world. At first only discounting bills, it soon began to lend money on all sorts of securities. In the
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The second international Anti-Slavery convention was in 1843 when Gurney was the chairman of the convention.
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of
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134:(1777–1861), a tea merchant and banker, at St Mildred's Court, Poultry, in the City of London.
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to express a desire for a long continuance of peace and amity between
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was the second of the three sons of the marriage. The second daughter
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Hawke, Joanna. "Bunsen, Ernest Christian Ludwig de".
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Joseph Fry (1777–1861), husband of Elizabeth Gurney.
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957:Stephan, Megan A. "Leatham, William Henry".
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891:Baigent, Elizabeth. "Buxton, Edward North".
805:Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690–1996
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418:In 1853 he accompanied a deputation sent to
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467:John Gurney (1809–1856)
414:Peace mission to France
179:Philanthropic interests
130:of his brother-in-law,
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