'Contrasting careers. The first managers of the British Linen Co, 1745-1800' in D H Aldcroft & A Slaven (eds), Enterprise and Management. Essays in honour of Peter L Payne

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Author(s) Durie, Alastair J
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1995
Pages pp229-49
Publisher Scolar Press
Place Published Aldershot

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the Company's first joint managers, Ebenezer McCulloch and William Tod, whose careers were linked in 1740s and 50s but thereafter diverged with McCulloch suffering bankruptcy and poverty and Tod emerging as the Company's Deputy Governor and major shareholder