Empire of Straw: The Dynamic Rise & Disastrous Fall of Dashing Colonial Tycoon Benjamin Boyd

AUSTRALIANA

viii, 286 p., [24] p. of plates (some col.) : ill., ports., 1 map ; 25 cm. Bibliography : p. 285-286.
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This is the story of Ben Boyd, who founded the Royal Bank of Australia in the 1840’s and used its funds to finance his own huge pastoral, shipping and whaling empire and send it into bankruptcy unknown to shareholders in England and Scotland.
Boyd, Benjamin, 1796-1851
Pioneers — New South Wales — Biography
Businessmen — New South Wales — Biography
New South Wales — Economic conditions — 1788-1851
New South Wales — History — 1788-1851