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| Genre/Form: | Biography Genealogy |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Kleinwort family.; Benson family. |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jehanne Wake |
| ISBN: | 0198282990 9780198282990 |
| OCLC Number: | 36337295 |
| Description: | xiv, 514 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Merchants on the Move 1250-1886. 1. Early Kleinworts and Bensons. 2. Benson Merchants on the Move. 3. Alexander F. Kleinwort and the Cuban Connection. 4. Founding Fathers in the City -- Pt. 2. Banking Brothers 1850-1961. 5. The Expansion of Kleinworts. 6. The Rebuilding of Bensons. 7. Reversal and Recovery. 8. Heirs of the Establishment. 9. Kleinworts and the Urge to Merge. 10. Bensons and a Complementary Union -- Pt. 3. Kleinwort Benson 1961-1994. 11. A Modern Merchant Bank 1961-1971. 12. A Changed Landscape 1972-1994. Postscript: A European Union 1995 -- App. 1. List of Partners and Directors -- App. 2. Financial Tables -- App. 3. R. H. Benson as a Collector. |
| Responsibility: | Jehanne Wake. |
Abstract:
There they founded two very different merchant banks, which merged in 1961 to create Kleinwort Benson Lonsdale, later Kleinwort Benson Group.
The Kleinwort Benson story mirrors both the spectacular growth of English capital and its often turbulent side-effects. It shows how the two families survived the collapse of the Benson bank in 1875, the freezing of Kleinwort assets and business by the European financial crisis of 1931, and two World Wars, and how they established their banks as powerful City players in the postwar period. Their story is as much a human drama as a financial history.
Brimming with generations of Kleinworts, Bensons, and the families with whom they married and formed partnerships, the book evokes their feuds and friendships, their successes and failures, set against the background of more than two hundred years of social and business history.
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