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GURNEY , the name of a philanthropic See also:English See also:family of bankers and merchants, See also:direct descendants of See also:Hugh de Gournay, See also:lord of Gotlrnay, one of the See also:Norman noblemen who accompanied See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror to See also:England. Large grants of See also:land were made to Hugh de Gournay in See also:Norfolk and See also:Suffolk, and See also:Norwich has since that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time been the headquarters of the family, the See also:majority of whom were See also:Quakers. Here in 1770 the See also:brothers See also:John and See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Gurney founded a banking-See also:house, the business passing in 1779 to Henry's son, See also:Bartlett Gurney. On the See also:death of Bartlett Gurney in 18oz the See also:bank became the See also:property of his three See also:cousins, of whom JOHN GURNEY (1750—18o9) was the most remarkable. One of his daughters was See also:Elizabeth See also:Fry; another married See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Fowell See also:Buxton. Of his sons one was See also:JosEPH JOHN GURNEY (1788—1847), a well-known philanthropist of the See also:day; another, See also:SAMUEL GURNEY (1786—1856) assumed on his See also:father's death the See also:control of the Norwich bank. Samuel Gurney also took over about the same time the control of the See also:London billbroking business of See also:Richardson, Overend & See also:Company, in which he was already a partner. This business had been founded in ',Soo by Thomas Richardson, clerk to a London See also:bill-discounter, and John Overend, See also:chief clerk in the bank of See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, See also:Payne & Company at See also:Nottingham, the Gurneys supplying the See also:capital. At that time bill-discounting was carried on in a spasmodic See also:fashion by the See also:ordinary See also:merchant in addition to his See also:regular business, but Richardson considered that there was See also:room for a London house which should devote itself entirely to the See also:trade in bills. This, at that time, novel See also:idea proved an instant success. The See also:title of the See also:firm was subsequently changed to Overend, Gurney & Company, and for See also:forty years it was the greatest discounting-house in the See also:world. During the See also:financial crisis of 1825 Overend, Gurney & Company were able to make See also:short loans to many other bankers. The house indeed became known as " the bankers' banker," and secured many of the previous clients of the Bank of England. Samuel Gurney died in 1856. He was a See also:man of very charitable disposition, and during the latter years of his See also:life charitable and philanthropic undertakings almost monopolized his See also:attention. In 1865 the business of Overend, Gurney & Company, which had come under less competent control, was converted into a See also:joint stock company, but in 1866 the firm suspended See also:payment with liabilities amounting to eleven millions See also:sterling.
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