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Thomas Coutts (7 September 1735 – 24 February 1822) was a British banker. He was a founder of the banking house Coutts & Co. [2] Early life.
James and Thomas did not always get on and eventually James drifted into politics, leaving the running of the bank to Thomas. James retired from the bank in 1775 due to ill health. The bank in the Strand became known as Thomas Coutts & Co. The bank flourished under the lead of Thomas, who took in three partners: Sir Edmund Antrobus (1st Baronet ...
When she was young, she appeared at the Duke Street Theatre, where she attracted the attention of an elderly wealthy banker, Thomas Coutts, founder of Coutts & Co, the royal bank. [4] Following his wife's death in 1815, she married him.
Etching portrait of Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), founder of Coutts Bank. (Coutts owed his success as a banker to his discretion and his understanding of human nature, which inspired trust and affection; and to his organizing and punctilious business practices, which brought financial gain.
Nigel Farage has described the bank Coutts as “the metripolitan elite” over a document that he claims shows the exclusive bank closed his account because it did not agree with his political views.
Thomas' other brother was Reverend James Coutts who was a minister at Parramatta and then Newcastle and is known for the establishment of the Coutt's Sailors Home in the latter city. [2] Thomas Coutts had nine children with Maria Bloodworth with many marrying into well respected colonial families. [4] Several landmarks are named after Thomas ...
Nigel Farage has said he is considering suing Coutts' owner NatWest after his bank account was closed, sparking a major row over free speech and interventions from the top of government.. The arch ...
On his marriage, Coutts was taken into partnership by his wife's uncle, George Campbell, head of the Whig bank in the Strand who counted John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute as a customer. Upon Campbell's death in 1761, James took his brother Thomas into partnership with him. Lord Bute, as privy purse to George III, placed the royal account at Coutts ...