After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board ( where his successor as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young ) in 1963, and he decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking.

From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.

Earlier that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.

Many work in finance and banking in the City of London.

The international corporate banking division has branches in Germany ( Frankfurt ), United Kingdom ( London ), Singapore, China ( Shanghai ) and in the United States ( New York ).

The House of Lombard was a banking family in medieval London, England.

In 1825 and 1826, a banking crisis swept through the cities of London and Edinburgh.

Forest City Velodrome in London, Ontario, Canada, is the world's shortest at 138 m. Built to fit a hockey arena, it too has steep banking.

The G-20 became in 2008 and 2009 a major organization, as leaders of the member countries held two major summits in Washington in November 2008 and in London in April 2009 to regulate the banking and financial sectors, and also succeeding in coordinating their economic action and in avoiding protectionist reactions.

* June 5 – German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.

* Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith's business which, as private banking house C. Hoare & Co., will survive through to the 21st century.

The enterprising class of the communes extended its trade and banking activities well into northern Europe: " Lombard " designated the merchant or banker coming from northern Italy ( see, for instance, Lombard Street in London ).

Early banking ( money-changing ) activity is suggested occurring in the city according to a silver drachma coin from Trapezus in the British Museum, London.

Morgan went into banking in 1857 at his father's London branch, moving to New York City in 1858 where he worked at the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Company, the American representatives of George Peabody & Company.

Other international banking units, such as International Westminster Bank's London Branch and the Nostro Reconciliations Department remained at their locations ( at 41 Threadneedle Street and Park House, Finsbury Square, respectively ) due to insufficient space in the tower.

The more severe cuts at UBS were an acknowledgment that prior to the merger Swiss Bank Corporation had built a global investment banking business, Warburg Dillon Read through its acquisitions of Dillon Read in New York and S. G. Warburg in London.

The Seligman family moved from merchandising to banking in the late 1860s, with operations in New York, St. Louis, and Philadelphia as well as Frankfurt, Germany, London and Paris that gave European investors an opportunity to buy American government and railroad bonds.

Many of Citi's present international offices are older ; offices in London, Shanghai, Calcutta, and elsewhere were opened in 1901 and 1902 by the International Banking Corporation ( IBC ), a company chartered to conduct banking business outside the U. S., at that time an activity forbidden to U. S. national banks.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

< li > In November 2010, an Apple I with serial number 82 sold for £ 133, 250 ($ 210, 000 ) at Christie's auction house in London.

I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...

The first chocolate house opened in London in 1657.

A house near London, England, where Defoe once resided.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

Laurence O ' Shaughnessy's former home, the large house on the corner, 24 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London

In 2001 Banks sold his World Cup Winners medal at Christie's auction house in London.

Records show that gunpowder was being made, in England, in 1346, at the Tower of London ; a powder house existed at the Tower in 1461 ; and in 1515 three King's gunpowder makers worked there.

He returned to London before the end of 1744, but following his father's death in late 1745 he shared a house in Plymouth Dock with his sisters.

Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 in his house in Leicester Fields in London between eight and nine in the evening.

A blue plaque stands on the wall of his house in Blacklands Terrace ( 25 Draycott Place ), Chelsea, London.

Following Aileen Philby's death in England in 1957, and Eleanor's subsequent divorce from Brewer, Philby and Eleanor were married in London in 1959, and set up house together in Beirut.

He lived in his Paris house ( now only small ruins ) located at Benson Point, across the Burgle Channel from Londres ( today London ) at Bridges Point where he established the port.

* 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

Elizabeth, though protesting her innocence in the Wyatt affair, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two months, then was put under house arrest at Woodstock Palace.

While in office, the Prime Minister officially resides at 10 Downing Street in London and is also entitled to use the country house of Chequers in Buckinghamshire.

Any Person that hath occasion for the said Engines may apply themselves to the Patentee at his house near St Thomas Apostle London or to Mr. Nicholas Wall at the Workshoppe near Saddlers Wells at Islington or to Mr. William Tillcar, Turner, his agent at his house in Woodtree next door to the Sun Tavern London.

After the development of the large London Porter breweries in the 18th century, the trend grew for pubs to become tied houses which could only sell beer from one brewery ( a pub not tied in this way was called a Free house ).

In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London accepted the manuscript for publication, in three volumes.

The house and gardens are now owned by the Society of Antiquaries of London, and is open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the summer.

King was especially concerned with issues of social welfare and was influenced by the settlement house movement pioneered by Toynbee Hall in London.

The area to the south of Long Acre contains the Royal Opera House, the market and central square, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum ; while the area to the north of Long Acre is largely given over to independent retail units centred on Neal Street, Neal's Yard and Seven Dials ; though this area also contains residential buildings such as Odhams Walk, built in 1981 on the site of the Odhams print works, and is home to over 6, 000 residents.

2009: BAM launches the Bridge Project, a transatlantic partnership with London ’ s Old Vic and Neal Street Productions ; productions of Chekhov ’ s The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare ’ s The Winter ’ s Tale, directed by Sam Mendes, open at BAM before touring the globe

The bank also took the lead in establishing the security and stability of the entire Scottish banking system, which became more important after the collapse of the Ayr Bank in 1772, in the crisis following the collapse of the London house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down.

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** Daniel Harding ( conductor ); Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Nathan Gunn, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, Gidon Saks, Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Teadt, Andrew Tortise, Rodrick Williams, John Fraser ( producer ); London Symphony Orchestra ; Gentlemen Of The London Symphony Chorus ) for Britten: Billy Budd

A short time later, Harris and Murray presented a copy of the tape to a DJ named Neal Kay, then running a heavy metal club in Kingsbury, North West London called the Bandwagon Soundhouse.

The revival of the morris dances started when Mary Neal, the organiser of the Esperance Girls ' Club in London, used Sharp's ( then unpublished ) notations to teach the traditional dances to the club's members in 1905.

Other players on the 1975 Majors ballclub were: former Major League Baseball, left-handed pitcher Mike Kilkenny, a league all-star and 1975 Intercounty MVP ; shortstop Dave Byers ; all-star third baseman Barry Boughner ; 1975 batting champion Larry Haggit (. 412 ); manager Roy McKay ; coach John Ambrose ; long-time coach-trainer Norm Aldridge ( Aldridge has a City-owned baseball diamond named after him in northeast London called Norm Aldridge Field ; Larry Wilson ; pitcher Phil Schmidt ; pitcher Rick Lindquist ; Barry Fuller ; Mike Fess ; catcher Wayne ( Dog ) Fenlon ; Brian Bell ; captain Dave ( Whitey ) Lapthorne ; John Marks ; Alex McKay Jr ; Jamie Hodge ; John Gourley Jr .; pitcher Neal Ambrose ; trainers Ed Loney and Bob Gilan ; General Manager George Hall and batboy Jim McKay.

* Buck ( Arvin in London production ) ( Darius Nichols, New York-Will Cassidy, London-Alex Neal, New LA CAST )-Candi's friend, his opinions are overshadowed by her own ideas.

He managed a rock club called ' Neal Kay's Heavy Metal Soundhouse ', originally resident in the back room of the Prince of Wales public house in Kingsbury, North London ; this back-room venue was known as the ' Bandwagon '.

In the 1957-58 television season, she appeared in the CBS sitcom filmed in England, Dick and the Duchess, in the role of Jane Starrett, a patrician Englishwoman married to an American insurance claims investigator living in London, a role played by Patrick O ' Neal.

* Nathaniel Neal Solly, Memoir of the life of William James Müller, a native of Bristol, landscape and figure painter: with original letters and an account of his travels and of his principal works ( London: Chapman & Hall, 1875 ) 369 pp.