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  • Overend, Gurney & Company was a London wholesale discount bank, known as "the bankers' bank", which collapsed in 1866 owing about £11 million, equivalent...
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    Gurney from his father-in-law and what was bequeathed to him by his father, helped him to make rapid progress as a partner in Richardson and Overend,...
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  • London billbroking business of Richardson, Overend & Company, whose later name later was Overend, Gurney and Company. It became the world's largest discounting...
    22 KB (2,734 words) - 15:29, 20 April 2024
  • of Richardson, Overend & Company, in which he was already a partner. The title of the firm was subsequently changed to Overend, Gurney and Company, and...
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  • they overstretched themselves. The partnership's principal bank was Overend, Gurney and Company. As a consequence of a run on the bank caused by persistent...
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  • nevertheless closed down at the end of 1799. Overend, Gurney & Co United Kingdom June 1866 Banking After Samuel Gurney's retirement, the bank invested heavily...
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  • an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London Great depression of British agriculture (1873–1896)...
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    1873. The book was in part a reaction to the financial collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a wholesale discount bank located at 65 Lombard Street...
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  • Gurney may refer to: Samuel Gurney (1723–1770), whose daughter married Samuel Hoare Jr Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), head of Gurney's Bank and Overend,...
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    the national bank of Sweden, operated by the parliament. In 1866, Overend, Gurney and Company suffered a bank run. It incorporated as a limited liability...
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    was spurred by the collapse of an old and prestigious banking firm "Overend, Gurney & Co."; this major bankruptcy caused a serious panic within the English...
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    construction in 1865. By the time of the 1866 financial crisis caused by the Overend, Gurney and Company collapse, a 3⁄8-mile (0.60 km) tube from Holborn to Hatton...
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    Retrieved 9 April 2007. Xenos, Stefanos T. (1869). Depredations: Or, Overend, Gurney & Co., and the Greek and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Making...
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    the CSS Florida and CSS Shenandoah. The Overend-Gurney fraud trial: the trial of the partners of Overend & Gurney, a bank that had collapsed in spectacular...
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    difficult as a result of the 1866 financial panic caused by failure of Overend, Gurney and Company and, in 1869, there was a riot at Edenbridge because Belgian...
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    fact happened several times: in 1847 and 1857, and during the 1866 Overend Gurney crisis. Also, while the act restricted the supply of new notes, it did...
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    an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London, and the corso forzoso abandonment of the silver...
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  • London billbroking business of Richardson, Overend & Company, whose title was subsequently changed to Overend, Gurney and Company. It went on to become the...
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    liability and restricting investment to the very wealthy. During the Overend Gurney crisis (1866–1867) and the Long Depression (1873–1896) many companies...
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    fraud. C, a 2011 anime inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Overend, Gurney and Company, a British bank active in wholesale markets which collapsed...
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