???? - 1800
London banker and stockbroker, at one stage partner with Richard Fuller and John Vaughan in the private bank known as Fuller, Halford & Vaughan c. 1774 and later as Fuller Banbury, Nix & Co., a predecessor of RBS/NatWest.
John Vaughan of Cornhill banker and John Halford of Cornhill banker were parties to a deed of 05/10/1774 under which Thomas Taylor of St Vincent sold annuities of 拢360 p.a. to a group of London bankers and merchants including the two men, secured on Taylor's estate and enslaved people in St George's parish, St Vincent. Halford bought an annuity of 拢50 p.a for his own life and for that of Phebe Gardiner.
The will of John Halford stockbroker of Broad Street Buildings, proved 15/08/1800 was of the same man, the identification cemented by the presence in his will of his sister Phebe Gardiner. He left 拢3000 to his children with his wife Judith Fenn, whom he had married in 1775.
[accessed 17/10/2020].
Deed Book 1770-1776, British Library, EAP688/1/1/25, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-25 pp. 239-249.
PROB 11/1346/174.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name partner
Fuller, Banbury & Nix
Banker |
Business partners
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Broad Street Buildings, City of London, Middlesex, London, England
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