Group From 1694

Bank of England

Categories: Commerce, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

Londonist have an interesting post about animals at the Bank of England.

The Guardian, 16 April 2022, reporting on an exhibition at the Bank of England, informed that the Bank once owned 599 slaves. In the early 1770s a merchant company defaulted on loans made by the Bank, and so the Bank became the owner of two plantations in Grenada along with the slaves there held. In 1790 the Bank sold the plantations to James Baillie, who shortly after became MP for Horsham. The article quotes a historian making the point that most UK financial institutions operating at that time would have had some involvement in the slave trade.

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Bank of England

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Cornhill pump

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Marmaduke Langdale

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Person, Benefactor, Commerce

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Julian Metcalfe

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Person, Commerce, Food & Drink

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garment and textile industries in the East End

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4 memorials

Great Exhibition

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Event, Commerce, Museums / Libraries

13 memorials

Italo Svevo

Businessman and author. Born in Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz. The pseudonym translates as 'Swabian Italian', but as the only definitions of Swabian relate to places...

Person, Commerce, Literature, Austria, Hungary, Italy

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