Henry Clews.
Henry Clews (1834 - 1923) was a British-born North American financier. Clews was born in Staffordshire, England, and emigrated to the C.N.A. after the Rocky Mountain War. After serving as a clerk in an import business in the 1850s he entered the bond market, co-founding the second largest marketer of government bonds in the country. Following passage of the Fifth Point by the Grand Council in 1891, Clews and J.P. Morgan in Great Britain managed the National Financial Administration's initial N.A. £46 million bond issue.
Henry Clews does not have an entry in Sobel's index. He is mentioned in a footnote on page 266 of For Want of a Nail ....
Sobel's source for Henry Clews' role in the N.F.A.'s bond issue is Julius Nelson's Financing a Nation: My Years at the N.F.A. (New York, 1910).
IOW Henry Clews emigrated from the U.K. to the United States in 1853 and entered the bond market there. He was part of the "Committee of 70" that deposed the Tweed Ring in 1871.