Backwell, Edward
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Financial services
Goldsmith banking services
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Luxury / consumer goods production
Goldsmithing & silversmithing
Notes:
Edward Backwell, c1619-83, leading goldsmith and goldsmith banker in the period of the English republic and early restoration. Apprenticed to Robert Vyner. Acted as agent for the government/Crown in numerous transactions and lent to same. Extensive dealer in bullion. 1682 bankrupt.
Publications:
- A pre-Bank of England English banker. Edward Backwell by Richards, Richard D
- 'Alderman Edward Backwell' in F G Hilton Price, A Handbook of London Bankers; with some account of their predecessors, the early goldsmiths by Price, F G Hilton
- 'Balances and goldsmith bankers. The co-ordination and control of inter banker debt clearing in the seventeenth century London' in D Mitchell (ed), Goldsmiths, Silversmiths and Bankers. Innovation and the transfer of skill, 1550-1750 by Quinn, Stephen
- Edward Backwell as a royal agent by Clark, Dorothy K
- Goldsmith banking. Mutual acceptance and inter-banker clearing in Restoration London by Quinn, Stephen
- Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London. Their lives and their marks by Mitchell, David M
- Some account of the business of Alderman Edward Backwell, goldsmith and banker by Price, F G Hilton
- 'To Alderman Backwells for the candlesticks for Mr Coventry'. The manufacture and sale of plate at The Unicorn, Lombard Street, 1663-72 by Mitchell, David M
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Financial services Goldsmith banking services
- Luxury / consumer goods production Goldsmithing & silversmithing
Notes:
Edward Backwell, c1619-83, leading goldsmith and goldsmith banker in the period of the English republic and early restoration. Apprenticed to Robert Vyner. Acted as agent for the government/Crown in numerous transactions and lent to same. Extensive dealer in bullion. 1682 bankrupt.Publications:
- A pre-Bank of England English banker. Edward Backwell by Richards, Richard D
- 'Alderman Edward Backwell' in F G Hilton Price, A Handbook of London Bankers; with some account of their predecessors, the early goldsmiths by Price, F G Hilton
- 'Balances and goldsmith bankers. The co-ordination and control of inter banker debt clearing in the seventeenth century London' in D Mitchell (ed), Goldsmiths, Silversmiths and Bankers. Innovation and the transfer of skill, 1550-1750 by Quinn, Stephen
- Edward Backwell as a royal agent by Clark, Dorothy K
- Goldsmith banking. Mutual acceptance and inter-banker clearing in Restoration London by Quinn, Stephen
- Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London. Their lives and their marks by Mitchell, David M
- Some account of the business of Alderman Edward Backwell, goldsmith and banker by Price, F G Hilton
- 'To Alderman Backwells for the candlesticks for Mr Coventry'. The manufacture and sale of plate at The Unicorn, Lombard Street, 1663-72 by Mitchell, David M