Grant, Albert

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  • Financial services Business promotion, projection, etc, activities

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Albert Grant, 1831-99, company promoter. Started in finance in 1859 through establishment of Mercantile & Discount Co which failed c1860. 1864 established Credit Foncier Ltd and after Credit Mobilier Ltd which he soon merged to form Credit Foncier & Mobilier of England Ltd, a company promotion vehicle. Failed in 1872 having fraudulently floated many entities. Subsequently operated, inter alia, through his private bank of Grant Brothers & Co and later bankrupt

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