• 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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    London bill discounter, and John Overend, Chief Clerk in the bank of Smith, Payne & Company in Nottingham, with the Gurneys supplying the capital. At...
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  • and with their overseas operations hindered by war, they overstretched themselves. The partnership's principal bank was Overend, Gurney and Company....
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  • Richardson, Overend & Company, in which he was already a partner. The title of the firm was subsequently changed to Overend, Gurney and Company, and for forty...
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    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, London...
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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...
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  • 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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    international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London, and the corso forzoso abandonment of the silver standard in...
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    and formed what is still today Riksens Ständers Bank, the national bank of Sweden, operated by the parliament. In 1866, Overend, Gurney and Company suffered...
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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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  • of the July 1866 collapse of the major London discount house Overend, Gurney and Company the London board of the Bank of Queensland took the opportunity...
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    after criticism of its lacklustre response to the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company. The journalist Walter Bagehot wrote on the subject in Lombard...
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    his remaining assets were lost in the collapse of the firm of Overend, Gurney and Company. He was reduced to penning columns on international affairs for...
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    a 2011 anime inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Overend, Gurney and Company, a British bank active in wholesale markets which collapsed in...
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  • billbroking business of Richardson, Overend & Company, whose title was subsequently changed to Overend, Gurney and Company. It went on to become the world's...
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    collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a bank headquartered at No. 65, Lombard Street. Karl Marx mentions Lombard Street in reference to credit and banking...
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    1865. By the time of the 1866 financial crisis caused by the Overend, Gurney and Company collapse, a ⅜ mile tube from Holborn to Hatton Garden had been...
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    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 navvies...
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  • international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal (24 September)...
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    was signed 1 February 1869 and renewed ten years later. The collapse of the bankers Overend, Gurney and Company in 1866 and the financial crisis the following...
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    Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin. May 10 – London bank Overend, Gurney and Company collapses, precipitating Panic of 1866. May 16 – The United States...
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    explosion. Prosecution of the directors of Overend, Gurney and Company for fraud following the company's collapse, (1869); Counsel for Arthur Orton,...
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    the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London, and the corso forzoso abandonment of the silver standard in Italy, the company failed. Various...
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    Insurance Society of Canton in 1835. In 1866, the collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a discount house in Lombard Street, London rocked the financial...
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    banking firm of Overend Gurney and Company meant that for a while finance was impossible to get. Dissatisfaction with the available railway and dock facilities...
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  • the Company's management focus had been on Parliamentary work on extensions. In July 1866 the banking firm of Overend, Gurney and Company failed, and this...
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    appointment was quickly followed by the collapse of bankers Overend, Gurney and Company on 10 May 1866 and the subsequent financial crisis during the following...
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  • Brighton and South Coast Railway (Capital and Powers) Act of 1866. In the summer of 1866 the banking house of Overend, Gurney and Company failed, causing...
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    Wilsley Estate in 1857. Tooth lost money in the Overend, Gurney and Company bank crash of 1866, and died in 1871 after which his family were forced the...
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  • Brecon Old Bank (category Companies based in Powys)
    encounter a run against its assets in 1866, the year of the Overend, Gurney and Company failure in London. Around a hundred depositors claimed that they...
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