Shawcross Finlay

Shawcross Finlay.

Shawcross Finlay was a British banker in the late nineteenth century. Together with his business partner J.P. Morgan, Finlay was able to delay the nationalization of the Morgan Bank of London for seven years after the passage of the Great Reform Bill of 1886.

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Sobel's source for Finlay's efforts to thwart the nationalization of the Morgan Bank is Werner Hiedi's The Making of a Bank: The History of the Morgan Bank of London (London, 1939).