Dumbell Affair
Details:
- Author(s) Chappell, Connery
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 126pp; illus
- Publisher Stephenson
- Place Published Prescot
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: collapse of businesses
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Provides a long narrative account, without any analysis, of the collapse of Dumbells Bank in 1900 and of the circumstances leading to it, focusing on the extensive business activities of the Dumbell family, especially George William Dumbell, 1804-81, from the mid 19th century. These included the failed Isle of Man Joint Stock Bank and Great Laxey Mining Co Ltd