Herries, Farquhar

Firm Details

People & Investments (1)

Partner

Simon Halliday

Notes

A predecessor firm of Lloyds Bank, purchased by it in 1893.

The partnership between Robert Herries, Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Simon Halliday and Thomas Chapman of St James Street bankers under the firm Herries Farquhar and Company is amicably and by mutual consent dissolved. Robert Heroes retied, the business was continued by Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Simon Halliday, Thomas Chapman, and George Halliday.

Sources

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/our-history2/lloyds-bank/herries-farquhar--co/

London Gazette 17099 13 January 1816 p. 74.

Further Information

People of Interest

David Barclay

1729 - 1809

Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.

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