Boyd, Benjamin; Diamond, Marion

THE SEA HORSE AND THE WANDERER: Ben Boyd in Australia.

Pp. xiv+254, 8 plates, 2 text figures, full page map, appendix, notes, select bibliography, index; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *Ben Boyd was Chairman of the Royal Bank of Australia, which he founded in London. By 1844, he was the biggest of all the squatters in New South Wales, and one of the largest employers. Seven years later, he fled Sydney Harbour, his personal credit and financial empire destroyed, the Royal Bank about to go into receivership. Item #077768

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