Speculators and Patriots

Essays in Business Biography

R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781138432550
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135779320
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business History
• Index: Business

First Published in 1986. This volume includes a collection of seven essays which are biographical in treatment, examining trends or incidents in the careers of individual businessmen intended to illustrate the general themes of speculation and patriotism in the period 1880–1924.

INDEX

Abdul Hamid the Terrible, Sultan of Turkey, 49

Aird, Sir John, contractor, 84

Akers-Douglas, Aretas (1st Viscount Chilston), 6

Alderson, W., bankrupt, 62

Allatini, R., tobacco exporter, 42

Amery, Leo, wants United Empire, 128

Ampthill, 2nd Baron, imperialist, 128

Anglo-Austrian Bank, 80

Ashley Bottle Company, 7

Asquith, Herbert (1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith), wife quoted, 35;

his views on Vincent, 49;

honours Vincent, 50;

relations with Cassel, 92;

compares bankers to old maids, 95

Auboyneau, François, banker, 47

Babington-Smith, Sir Henry, recruited by Cassel, 78

Baldwin, Stanley (1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley), 106–19

Balfour, 1st Earl of, invests in peat, 50–6;

respects Lord Esher, 78;

aggrieves Cassel, 90

Balfour, George, 101

Baring-Gould, Francis, mining director, 68–5

Barker, Alfred, early career, 42–6;

his ‘daring bluff’, 43–8;

aghast at bad investments, 45;

‘breaking up rather fast’, 50

Barker, Sir Francis, Vincent’s confidential assistant, 42;

Rand mining director, 50

Barnato, Barney, ‘disreputable self-made millionaire’, 38–2;

speculator, 42;

Governor of de Beers, 57, 66, 69–5;

suicide, 64, 68

Barr, John, swindler, 4

Beaconsfield, 1st Earl of, 6

Beal, Edward, solicitor, 23

Beit, Sir Alfred, Randlord, 47, 57, 61–7, 66

Benn, Sir Shirley (1st Baron Glenravel), 101, 114–18

Berger, Theo, 47

Biggart, Sir Thomas, 100

Bigham, Sir John (1st Viscount Mersey), indicts Marks, 7, 9

Birchall, Sir John, 101, 110

Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt, 80

Bleidroder, Gerson von, Berlin banker, 42, 51

Bottomley, Horatio, his notorious theme, 8;

swindler, 16, 32

Bovril Company, 18–28

Bowyer, Sir George (1st Baron Denham), 101, 110

Brailsford, H.N., 72

British Commonwealth Union, 100–2, 110, 114

Bucknall, H.C., investor, 42

Buffelsdoorn Syndicate, 39–3

Buller, Sir Redvers, Exeter’s hero, 49

Bullionist, 4

Butterfield, company pro...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Editor’s Introduction
• ‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916
• Hooley and the Bovril Company
• Edgar Vincent, Viscount D’Abernon, and the Eastern Investment Company in London, Constantinople and Johannesburg
• Sir Frederic Philipson Stow: The Unknown Diamond Magnate
• Financiers and the British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel
• Sir Alan Smith, the Industrial Group and the Politics of Unemployment 1919–24
• Two Autobiographical Fragments
• Index