Walter Boyd. A merchant banker in the age of Napoleon
Details:
- Author(s) Cope, S R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1983
- Pages 197pp
- Publisher Alan Sutton Publishing
- Place Published Gloucester
Topics:
- Name Capital and money markets, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly and well referenced account by a retired banker and professional historian. Strong on banking processes. Provides an account of the life and business career of Walter Boyd in London and Paris, notably his involvement in government finance in both places and his activity in the bond markets in London in the 1790s. Chapters include: 'Banker in Paris'; 'Boyd moves to London'; 'Negotiations with Austria'; 'Imperial loan of 1794'; 'Hamburg bill transactions'; 'Boyd and the Bank of England'; 'Further lending to Austria'; 'Boyd, Benfield & Co in difficulties'; 'Financial schemes and new loans'; Boyd seeks assistance'; 'Failure'; 'Recovery'