The 'Grasshopper' in Lombard Street
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- Author(s) Martin, John B
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1892
- Pages 328pp; illus
- Publisher Leadenhall Press
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 1968. Written by a family partner in the business. In four sections, viz: 1] The partners including chapters on Sir Thomas Gresham, 1483-1579; Ebenezer Blackwell, 1731-82; 2] The business - about the changing banking process; 3] The Premises; 4] The Customers - connections with Baring Brothers; Henry Fauntleroy of Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy & Graham; fraudulent transactions. Appendices includes names of partners who signed annual balance sheet, 1731-90. Chapters include: Part 1] 'Legendary history of Sir Thomas Gresham, 1483-1579'; 'Sir Richard Martin to Thomas and James Martin, 1556-1731'; 'Ebenezer Blackwell, 1731-82'; 'Andrew Stone and Archbishop Stone, 1703-73'; 'Martin, Surman, Leaver & Stone to Martin & Co, 1731-1891'; Part 2] 'Early banking and moneylending'; 'Goldsmiths and modern banking'; 'The Grasshopper and modern banking'; Part 3] 'Lombard Street and the King's Exchange'; 'Change Alley - the Grasshopper - the Unicorn'; 'Garraway's and Baker's Coffee House'; 'The three crossed daggers and the plough'; Part 4] 'The old customers'; 'The queer customers'