George Grote

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Prescott & Grote
Name partner

Banker (Banking)

No notes

Firm 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

Firm Sources

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

Kynaston City of London I p. 232-3

Further Information

People of Interest

Eliza Down Williams (née Griffith)

28^th Mar 1802 - 6^th May 1874

Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.

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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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