British Provincial, Devon, Plymouth, General Bank, One Pound, 18—, unissued, for Joseph Hingston & Walter Prideaux (Outing 1714B; Grant 2292B). Extremely fine £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British and Irish Banknotes formed by the Late Edward Barnby.

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Joseph Hingston (1764-1835), Quaker, lived at Princes square, Plymouth. Walter Prideaux (†June 1832), of Kingsbridge, married Hingston’s daughter Sarah by his first wife, Sarah Ball, in May 1805; Hingston himself had 11 children. On 2 January 1832 the bank was merged into the Plymouth & Devonport Banking Co and Prideaux became its first manager, but the following year the name of the business was changed to the Devon & Cornwall Banking Co, which was taken over by Lloyds in 1906. Prideaux’s son, also Walter (1806-89) entered the business after the death of his father; a poet, he was an associate of the balloonist Charles Green and later became clerk to Goldsmiths’ Hall