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GILBART, JAMES WILLIAM (1794-1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GILBART, See also:JAMES See also:WILLIAM (1794-1863) , See also:English writer on banking, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:March 1794. From 1813 to 1825 he was clerk in a London See also:bank. After a two years' See also:residence in See also:Birmingham, he was appointed manager of the See also:Kilkenny See also:branch of the Provincial Bank of See also:Ireland, and in 1829 he was promoted to the See also:Waterford branch. In 1834 he became manager of the London and See also:Westminster Bank; and he did much to develop the See also:system of See also:joint-stock banking. On more than one occasion he rendered valuable services to the joint-stock See also:banks by his See also:evidence before committees of the See also:House of See also:Commons; and, . on the renewal of the bank See also:charter in 1844, he procured the insertion of a clause granting to joint-stock banks the See also:power of suing by their public officer, and also the right of accepting bills at less than six months' date. In 1846 he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. He died in London on the 8th of See also:August 1863. The Gilbart lectures on banking at See also:King's See also:College are called after him. The following are his See also:principal See also:works on banking, most of which have passed through more than one edition: See also:Practical See also:Treatise on Banking (1827) ; The See also:History and Principles of Banking (1834); The History of Banking in See also:America (1837) ; Lectures on the History and Principles of See also:Ancient See also:Commerce (1847); See also:Logic for the Million (1851); and Logic of Banking (1857).

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