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Edward Marjoribanks

Profile & Legacies Summary

1776 - 1868

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Counterclaimed apparently unsuccessfully with his partner Coutts Trotter as trustee for Good Hope estate in Trinidad.

  1. Partner in Coutts & co., 1797-1837, senior partner 1837-death. Son of Edward Marjoribanks (1735-1815) of Lees Berwickshire, wine merchant in Bordeaux. Left £600,000. One of his sons was Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth.

Sources

T71/894 Trinidad claim no. 1632 (Good Hope).

  1. William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? 1860- (Volumes 3 and 4, manuscripts in preparation), reference 1868/62.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Georgina Latour
Children
8 daughters, 3 sons
Wealth at death
£600,000
Occupation
Banker

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1632 ([Northumberland &] Good Hope)
£3,183 18s 1d
Unsuccessful claimant (Trustee)
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Legacies Summary

Commercial (4)

Railway Investment
Eastern Counties (Tottenham and Farringdon-street) [1846132]  
£2740 
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Railway Investment
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal [1846466]  
£5000 
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Chairman
Banker  
 
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Railway Investment
Midland (Ely to Lincoln) [1845138]  
£4000 
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Addresses (2)

34 Wimpole Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Notes →

From at least the baptism of his daughter Laura in 1826 to the census on 1851.

Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire, Central England, England
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