Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In a lane by the eastern entrance to the Royal Exchange, stand two statues: one of Paul Julius Reuter who founded his news agency there, and one of George Peabody who founded the Peabody Trust and a business which became J.P. Morgan & Co. [25] In 2013 a lease of Royal Exchange was sold by Anglo Irish Bank to Oxford Properties, a Canadian ...
The company received its royal charter under the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719 (6 Geo. 1.c. 18), popularly known as the Bubble Act. [3] Under the terms of this legislation, the Royal Exchange and the London Assurance Company were the only incorporated bodies chartered to write marine insurance.
Royal Exchange may refer to: North East Quarter, Belfast, a planned city centre development formerly known as Royal Exchange. Royal Exchange, Dublin, now City Hall, Dublin; Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, now the Edinburgh City Chambers; Royal Exchange, London, a centre of commerce in the City of London
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed [1] building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann's Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Royal Exchange Shopping Centre.
The Royal Exchange building in New York City, later known as the Old Royal Exchange and the Merchants Exchange, [a] was a covered marketplace located near the foot of Broad Street, near its intersection with Water Street. [1]
Jonathan's Coffee House was a significant meeting place in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, famous as the original site of the London Stock Exchange. The coffee house was opened around 1680 by Jonathan Miles in Change (or Exchange) Alley , in the City of London .
The Bubble Act 1720 (also Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719) [1] was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed on 11 June 1720 that incorporated the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation and London Assurance Corporation, but more significantly forbade the formation of any other joint-stock companies unless approved by royal charter
Halcyon Days Ltd is a British business which holds all three Royal Warrants to the British Royal Household as Suppliers of objets d'art – one of only 14 businesses to hold all three. [ 1 ] Specialists in English-made luxury goods, the business has two factories; one for enamelware in Wolverhampton and the other for English fine bone china in ...