Prescott & Grote

Firm Details

People & Investments (2)

Other partner

Charles Cave

Name partner

George Grote

Firm Evolutions (2)

1846 →

62 Threadneedle Street [London Gazette]

1848 →

Prescott, Grote Cave & Cave [London Gazette]

Notes

Dissolution of partnership as far as Evan Baille is concerned 1st July 1839, William George Prescott, George Grote, Levi Ames, Evan Baillie and Charles Grote as Bankers in Threadneedle Street.

Charles Cave = second partner; suicide of W.G. Prescott, senior partner 1865

Sources

1.9/7/1839 p. 1346. London Gazette 19749

Kynaston City of London I p. 232-3

Further Information

People of Interest

Elizabeth Metcalfe

1785 - 4^th Jan 1846

Yorkshire-born wife of the Acting Governor of Dominica in the 1800s.

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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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