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Richard Puller

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Painting of Richard Puller (1747-1826) as a child done by Joseph Highmore.

Richard Puller (1747–1826) was a prominent English merchant banker in London.[1] He has sometimes[2] been identified as the pseudonymous economic writer Piercy Ravenstone, considered a precursor of Karl Marx; but scholarly sources generally now follow the suggestion of Piero Sraffa that Ravenstone was Richard Puller the younger (1789–1831), his son.

Life

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He was the son of Christopher Puller (died 1789), also a prominent London merchant banker. His father was a director of the Bank of England, while he was a director of the South Sea Company;[1][2][3]

Richard and Charles Puller, of 10 Broadstreet Buildings, were the London bankers of John Adams during the 1780s; Adams refers also to the firm as Conde & Puller.[4][5][6] This was also the period of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and Richard Puller acted as an agent in a case concerning a captured Dutch ship.[7]

In later life Puller resided at Painswick Court in Gloucestershire. He died there, on 5 December 1826.[2][8]

Family

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Puller married Selina Wall, daughter of Thomas Wall of Albury Park, Surrey.[9] (Wall is so called. The Wall family of Albury Park were Charles Wall of Barings Bank and his wife Francis, daughter of Sir Francis Baring; they were the parents of Charles Baring Wall, the Member of Parliament. The house was bought in 1811 from Samuel Thornton, sold in 1819 to Henry Drummond.[10][11][12] Charles Wall's parents were Thomas Wall (1721–1812) and Elizabeth Ellis.[13]) The following were their children:

Notes

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  1. ^ a b John Tregenza (1968). Professor of Democracy. Melbourne University Press. p. 7.
  2. ^ a b c d e Potier, Jeanne. "Puller, Sir Christopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22882. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ William Stafford (24 April 1987). Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775-1830. Cambridge University Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-521-33989-6.
  4. ^ John Adams; Gregg L. Lint (1977). Papers of John Adams: June 1783-January 1784. Harvard University Press. p. 319 note 2. ISBN 978-0-674-05123-2.
  5. ^ "From John Adams to Richard Puller, 27 September 1789". Retrieved 5 January 2020. [This is an Early Access document from The Adams Papers. It is not an authoritative final version.]. Also available as captured by Internet Archive on 5 January 2020. From John Adams to Richard Puller, 27 September 1789.
  6. ^ "Papers of John Adams, Volume 15, From Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, MHS Digital Edition: Adams Papers". Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ^ Gert Oostindie; Jessica V. Roitman (20 June 2014). Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders. BRILL. p. 289 note 45. ISBN 978-90-04-27131-9.
  8. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. A. Dodd and A. Smith. 1826. p. 572.
  9. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1894). "A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland". London: Harrison & Sons. p. 539. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  10. ^ Prosser, George Frederick (1828). "Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey: Comprising ... Views of the ..." Internet Archive. Rivington. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  11. ^ Alan Munden, Thomas Snow and the Western Schism (PDF) at p. 332
  12. ^ "Wall, Charles Baring (1795–1853), of Norman Court, East Tytherley, Hants., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  13. ^ Sir Bernard Burke (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Company. p. 1494.
  14. ^ Vernon Charles Paget Hodson (1946). List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834: L-R. Constable. p. 583.
  15. ^ Nigel F. B. Allington (13 December 2010). English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists. Emerald Group Publishing. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-85724-062-0.
  16. ^ Matthew, H. C. G. "Pearson, John Norman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21721. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ^ David Ricardo; Piero Sraffa (22 November 1973). The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Volume 11, General Index. Cambridge University Press. p. xxix. ISBN 978-0-521-20039-4.
  18. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine: 1810. E. Cave. 1810.
  19. ^ John Debrett (1840). The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G. W. Collen. p. 112.