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William Dauntsey displacing him. But Dauntsey's financial operations proved unsuccessful and Gresham was soon reinstated; and as he professed his zealous desire to serve the Queen, and manifested great adroitness both in negotiating loans and in smuggling money, arms and foreign goods, not only were
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Apart from some small sums to various charities, Gresham bequeathed the bulk of his property (consisting of estates in London and around England giving an income of more than £2,300 a year) to his widow and her heirs, with the stipulation that after her death his own house in Bishopsgate Street and
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had discharged almost all of his debts. The Government sought Gresham's advice in all their money difficulties, and also frequently employed him in various diplomatic missions. He had no stated salary, but in reward of his services received from King Edward various grants of lands, the annual value
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provided for this purpose a suitable location. In this proposal he seems to have had a good eye for his self-interest as well as for the general good of the City's merchants, for by a yearly rental of £700 obtained for the shops in the upper part of the building he received more than sufficient
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on 10 March 1567; but, though he spent the remainder of his life in London, he continued his business as merchant and government financial agent in much the same way as he had always done.
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during the 13th century and found there by a woman whose attention was drawn to the child by a grasshopper. Although a beautiful story, it is more likely that the grasshopper is simply a
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comp. chiefly from his correspondence preserved in Her Majesty's state-paper office: including notices of many of his contemporaries. Published 1839 by R. Jennings in London . Volume I.
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In 1544 he married Anne Ferneley, widow of Sir William Read, a London merchant. By his wife he had an only son who predeceased him. He also had an illegitimate daughter who married
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Early banks all had distinctive signs displayed in this way, for example Lloyd's Bank in Birmingham was "the sign of the black horse", which usage survives
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According to ancient legend, the founder of the family, Roger de Gresham, was a foundling abandoned as a new-born baby among long grass in
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is indirectly named after Gresham. It was established in 1817 by another Thomas Gresham, who was given that name as he was a
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Gresham's initials "TG" and date 1563 with his golden grasshopper emblem, serving as the sign of a bank in
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Queen Elizabeth also found Gresham's abilities useful in a variety of other ways, including acting as
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Gresham appears as a background figure in a series of fictional mystery novels by the British author
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his services retained throughout her reign (1553–1558), but besides his salary of twenty shillings
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Portrait of Thomas Gresham, aged approximately 41. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
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extols the quality of the building when asked if he has ever seen "a goodlier frame":
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of Fiona Buckley. The fictional heroine of the stories, Ursula Blanchard, lived in
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the sergeant-porter, was imprisoned in his house from June 1569 to the end of 1572.
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playing on the sound "grassh-" and "Gresh-". The Gresham family uses as its
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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with her first husband while he worked as one of Gresham's agents.
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in 1559 prior to his departure. The unsettled times preceding the
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The Life of Sir Thomas Gresham: Founder of the Royal Exchange
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for negotiating favourable loans with foreign merchants.
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On London River: A Story of the Days of Queen Elizabeth
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Gresham College and the formation of the Royal Society
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Blanchard, Ian. "Gresham, Sir Thomas (c.1518–1579)".
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as depicted in the 1544 portrait of him owned by the
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Granville William Gresham Leveson Gower, JP, DL, FSA
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which proved so successful that in just a few years
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Thomas Gresham (died 1630)
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St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate
London
England
British
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Merchant
financier
The Royal Exchange
Gresham College
Sir Richard Gresham
/ˈɡrɛʃəm/
merchant
financier
King Edward VI
queens
Mary I
Elizabeth I
Royal Exchange
City of London
London
Norfolk
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Sir Richard Gresham
merchant mercer
Lord Mayor of London
King Henry VIII
St Paul's School

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