Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
PART ONE: MERCHANTS ON THE MOVE 1250-1886
1: Early Kleinworts and Bensons
2: Benson Merchants on the Move
3: Alexander F. Kleinwort and the Cuban Connection
4: Founding Fathers in the City
PART TWO: BANKING BROTHERS 1850-1961
5: The Expansion of Kleinworts
6: The Rebuilding of Bensons
7: Reversal and Recovery
8: Heirs of the Establishment
9: Kleinworts and the Urge to Merge
10: Bensons and a Complemenatry Union
PART THREE: KLEINWORT BENSON 1961-1994
11: A Modern Merchant Bank 1961-1971
12: A Changed Landscape 1972-1994
Postscript: A European Union
Sources
Appendices
Index

About the Author

Jehanne Wake is the author of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Unconventional Daughter (1988).

Reviews

`fascinating for the way she shows how this uniquely English style of gentlemanly capitalism, epitomised by the stockbroking firm of Robert Benson, co-existed in the City alongside the more austere German work ethic of Kleinworts bank'
Mark Archer, The Sunday Telegraph
`splendid new history of KB'
Christopher Fildes, Daily Telegraph