Public Finance and Private Wealth. The career of Sir Stephen Fox, 1627-1716
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- Author(s) Clay, Christopher
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1978
- Pages 362pp
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Does not claim to be a biography for want of private papers but focuses on his public - albeit low profile - career as an organiser of a system to fund the Restoration army in the 1660s, as a leading financier of the government in the 1670s, and as a financial adviser to the Crown in the 1680s and 90s. Chapters include: 'A wonderful child of providence'; 'Clerk of the Green Cloth and paymaster of the guards'; 'The Great Undertaking 1 - the guards and the garrisons'; 'The Great Undertaking 2 - the army, the household and the Excise'; 'Clouds and menaces - and the end of the Undertaking'; 'The founding of Chelsea Hospital'; 'The Pay Office, 1661-1685'; 'The richest commoner in three kingdoms'; 'Lord of the Treasury'; 'The family'; 'The worthy Sir Stephen Fox'; 'An interval betwixt business and death'