British Provincial, Dorset, Shaftesbury, Shaftesbury Bank, Ten Pounds, 10 October 1843, no. 698, for W.B. Brodie & Thomas King, signed by W.B. Brodie (Outing 1919B; Grant 2586). Split and rejoined at centre, printed bankruptcy stamp and handwritten dividend stamp on front, pinholes, otherwise fine, rare £300-400

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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William Bird Brodie (1780-1863), banker, bookseller and stationer, Whig MP for Salisbury 1832-43, was the proprietor of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal from 1808 until he was declared bankrupt in 1847. By 1811 Brodie had also taken over the banking business in Salisbury begun in the 1770s by Benjamin Charles Collins (1758-1808), nephew of the founder of the newspaper. Brodie, a former officer in the Wiltshire Militia, was appointed Lt-Col of the Salisbury Volunteer Infantry, a unit formed in the wake of the civil uprising which affected the city in November 1830 (Bennett, OMRS Journal, December 2009, pp.239-42, including a lithograph portrait of Brodie). He was an associate of the photographer W.H. Fox Talbot, published pamphlets on banking and slavery, as well as a book of poems. Thomas King (1806-63), a London banker whose country seat was at Alvediston, Wiltshire, entered into the banking partnership in 1834; after the bank failed he became a gentleman farmer at Norrington