'Henry Hoare, banker, and his family and the Stourhead Estate' in F M L Thompson (ed), Landowners, Capitalists and Entrepreneurs

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Author(s) Clay, Christopher
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1994
Pages pp113-38
Publisher Clarendon Press
Place Published Oxford

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Name Wealth of business leaders
Name Entrepreneurs & business elites

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the propensity of businessmen to buy land in the 18th and early 19th centuries in the context of the arrival of a range of other investment opportunities outside business and focusing to a very large extent on the experience of the bankers, Henry Hoare, 1677-1725, and, more notably, Henry, 1705-85, dealing with the profitability of their bank and the extent of their purchases,