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Speculators and Patriots
Essays in Business Biography
R.P.T. Davenport-Hines
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Speculators and Patriots
Essays in Business Biography
R.P.T. Davenport-Hines
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First Published in 1986. This volume includes a collection of seven essays which are biographical in treatment, examining trends or incidents in the careers of individual businessmen intended to illustrate the general themes of speculation and patriotism in the period 1880ā1924.
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INDEX
Abdul Hamid the Terrible, Sultan of Turkey, 49
Aird, Sir John, contractor, 84
Akers-Douglas, Aretas (1st Viscount Chilston), 6
Alderson, W., bankrupt, 62
Allatini, R., tobacco exporter, 42
Amery, Leo, wants United Empire, 128
Ampthill, 2nd Baron, imperialist, 128
Anglo-Austrian Bank, 80
Ashley Bottle Company, 7
Asquith, Herbert (1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith), wife quoted, 35;
his views on Vincent, 49;
honours Vincent, 50;
relations with Cassel, 92;
compares bankers to old maids, 95
Auboyneau, FranƧois, banker, 47
Babington-Smith, Sir Henry, recruited by Cassel, 78
Baldwin, Stanley (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley), 106ā19
Balfour, 1st Earl of, invests in peat, 50ā6;
respects Lord Esher, 78;
aggrieves Cassel, 90
Balfour, George, 101
Baring-Gould, Francis, mining director, 68ā5
Barker, Alfred, early career, 42ā6;
his ādaring bluffā, 43ā8;
aghast at bad investments, 45;
ābreaking up rather fastā, 50
Barker, Sir Francis, Vincentās confidential assistant, 42;
Rand mining director, 50
Barnato, Barney, ādisreputable self-made millionaireā, 38ā2;
speculator, 42;
Governor of de Beers, 57, 66, 69ā5;
suicide, 64, 68
Barr, John, swindler, 4
Beaconsfield, 1st Earl of, 6
Beal, Edward, solicitor, 23
Beit, Sir Alfred, Randlord, 47, 57, 61ā7, 66
Benn, Sir Shirley (1st Baron Glenravel), 101, 114ā18
Berger, Theo, 47
Biggart, Sir Thomas, 100
Bigham, Sir John (1st Viscount Mersey), indicts Marks, 7, 9
Birchall, Sir John, 101, 110
Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt, 80
Bleidroder, Gerson von, Berlin banker, 42, 51
Bottomley, Horatio, his notorious theme, 8;
swindler, 16, 32
Bovril Company, 18ā28
Bowyer, Sir George (1st Baron Denham), 101, 110
Brailsford, H.N., 72
British Commonwealth Union, 100ā2, 110, 114
Bucknall, H.C., investor, 42
Buffelsdoorn Syndicate, 39ā3
Buller, Sir Redvers, Exeterās hero, 49
Bullionist, 4
Butterfield, company pro...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Editorās Introduction
- āA Trusted Guide of the Investing Publicā: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884ā1916
- Hooley and the Bovril Company
- Edgar Vincent, Viscount DāAbernon, and the Eastern Investment Company in London, Constantinople and Johannesburg
- Sir Frederic Philipson Stow: The Unknown Diamond Magnate
- Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel
- Sir Alan Smith, the Industrial Group and the Politics of Unemployment 1919ā24
- Two Autobiographical Fragments
- Index
Citation styles for Speculators and Patriots
APA 6 Citation
Davenport-Hines. (2005). Speculators and Patriots (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1602419/speculators-and-patriots-essays-in-business-biography-pdf (Original work published 2005)
Chicago Citation
Davenport-Hines. (2005) 2005. Speculators and Patriots. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1602419/speculators-and-patriots-essays-in-business-biography-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Davenport-Hines (2005) Speculators and Patriots. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1602419/speculators-and-patriots-essays-in-business-biography-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Davenport-Hines. Speculators and Patriots. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2005. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.