Kleinwort Benson. The history of two families in banking
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- Author(s) Wake, Jehanne
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 514pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Authoritative commissioned narrative history. Comprises three sections: 1] 'Merchants on the move, 1250-1886' [pp3-102] - 'Early Kleinworts and Bensons' / 'Benson merchants on the move' / Alexander F Kleinwort and the Cuban connection' / 'Founding fathers in the City'; 2] 'Banking brothers,1850-1961' [pp105-375] - 'The expansion of Kleinworts' / 'The rebuilding of Bensons' / 'Reversal and recovery / 'Heirs of the establishment' / 'Kleinworts and the urge to move' / 'Bensons and a complementary union '; 3] 'Kleinwort Benson, 1961-94' [pp379-437] - 'A modern merchant bank, 1961-1971' / 'A changed landscape, 1972-1994'. Equal coverage of the Kleinwort and Benson components [but little coverage of Lonsdale Investment Trust]. Appendices include lists of partners/directors; analysis of capital, distributed profits and losses, and acceptances, 1850s/60s-1960; profits and losses of Kleinwort Benson Group, 1961-94. Also family trees of Kleinwort and Benson families