A Family Named Gresham
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Author | : Virgil L. Gresham |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1977 |
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The Gresham family immigrated from England to Virginia about 1690. Includes Akers, Anderson, Davis, Killen, Pettus, Rice and related families.
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Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : John Guy |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782835415 |
Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded and in the City of London's position at the economic centre of the earth. Without Gresham, England truly might have become a vassal state. His manoeuvring released Elizabeth from a crushing burden of debt and allowed for vital military preparations during the wars of religion that set Europe ablaze. Yet his deepest loyalties have remained enigmatic, until now. Drawing on vast new research and several startling discoveries, the great Tudor historian John Guy recreates Gresham's life and singular personality with astonishing intimacy. He reveals a calculating survivor, flexible enough to do business with merchants and potentates no matter their religious or ideological convictions. Yet his personal relationships were disturbingly transactional. He was a figure of cold unsentimentality even to members of his own family. Elizabeth I found herself at odds with Gresham's ambitions. In their collisions and wary accommodations, we see our own conflicts between national sovereignty and global capital foreshadowed. A story of adventure and jeopardy, greed and cunning, loyalties divided, mistaken or betrayed, this is a biography fit for a merchant prince.
Author | : William Lindsay Gresham |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-04-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174283 |
Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.
Author | : Patrick Hanks |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
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Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192527479 |
Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author | : Roseanna M. White |
Publisher | : Bethany House |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1441231218 |
Edwardian Romance and History Gains a Twist of Suspense Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How does one steal a family's history, their very name? Peter Holstein, given his family's German blood, writes his popular series of adventure novels under a pen name. With European politics boiling and his own neighbors suspicious of him, Peter debates whether it might be best to change his name for good. When Rosemary shows up at his door pretending to be a historian and offering to help him trace his family history, his question might be answered. But as the two work together and Rosemary sees his gracious reaction to his neighbors' scornful attacks, she wonders if her assignment is going down the wrong path. Is it too late to help him prove that he's more than his name?
Author | : Jim D Jordan |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-03-03 |
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Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-1579, born in London, descended from an ancient Norfolk family. father, Sir Richard Gresham, a leading city merchant and Lord Mayor of London, was knighted by King Henry VIII for negotiating favorable loans with foreign merchants. Like his father, Sir Thomas Gresham was an English Merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1553-1558) and Elizabeth I (1558-1603). After the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne, he spent most of his time in London when he wasn't traveling on diplomatic and financial missions for the Queen. He accumulated a great fortune as a banker, mercer, and merchant.Sir Thomas Gresham was the founder of the Royal Exchange, and he endowed Gresham College in London, both of which still exist today.By applying his knowledge and principals to England's financial empire, he restored the debased currency of England and thereby reduced or in some cases eliminated the Crown's debts. The now Well-known financial principal called "Gresham's Law" gets its name from him, which states: "Bad money drives out good."
Author | : Gillian Avery |
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Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : H. Amanda Robb |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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The definitive guide to the 5,000 most common surnames in the United States. With origins, variations, rankings, prominent bearers and published genealogies.
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Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 250 |
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ISBN | : 3368871072 |