PALGRAVE, R. H. Inglis.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Analysis of the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Banks of Issue, 1875. First edition. "Palgrave's interest in banking led in the early 1870s to his publishing several books, one of which earned him a Swedish knighthood. He became a prominent member of the banking profession, representing the country bankers in parliamentary evidence and in helping to form the Bankers' Institute. By this time the great age of banking debate was over, and most of his works were statistical in inspiration and form. Even so he was a critic of the Bank Charter Act's failure in 1844 to regulate properly the banking reserve of the Bank of England and was a stalwart defender of note issue by the country banks" (ODNB).

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