| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1870 - 650 pages
...harm. Having patronized his brother Alexander, who was a banker in London, he enabled that individual to enter upon an unusually extensive series of transactions,...in Britain during the latter part of the eighteenth century. Besides the losses which Sir William Fordyce thus incurred, he soon after became engaged for... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1875 - 294 pages
...harm. Having patronized his brother Alexander, who was a banker in London, he enabled that individual to enter upon an unusually extensive series of transactions,...bankruptcy of Fordyce & Co., which may be termed one of the rnost important domestic events in Britain during the latter part of the eighteenth century. Besides... | |
| Genealogy - 1888 - 718 pages
...and by his speculations produced such widespread ruin that the bankruptcy of Fordyce and Co. has been termed " one of the most important domestic events...in Britain during the latter part of the eighteenth century." Some years previous to his death Provost Fordyce had acquired the land of Broadford, as also... | |
| Alexander Macdonald Munro - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1897 - 414 pages
...speculations, produced widespread ruin in commercial circles. The bankruptcy of Fordyce and Co. has been termed " one of the most important domestic events...in Britain during the latter part of the eighteenth century." * Some years prior to his death Provost Fordyce acquired the lands of Broadford, as also... | |
| John Bulloch - Scotland - 1902 - 220 pages
...Alexander Fordyce, a London banker. The failure of Fordyce & Co is termed, in Chambers's Biog. Diet., "one of the most important domestic events in Britain during the latter part of the l8th century." Notices of Alexander Fordyce, banker, appear in 5. N. & (?., III., 21, and of John Fordyce... | |
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