Stockjobbers were institutions that acted as market maker s in the London Stock Exchange . Prior to Big Bang financial markets Big Bang in 1986, every stock traded on the Exchange passed through a jobber s book, where they acted as intermediaries between stockbrokers , who were in turn not permitted to be market makers. Immediately prior to the Big Bang, the leading jobbing firms were Akroyd & Smithers , Wedd Durlacher , Pinchin Denny, Smith Brothers, Bisgood Bishop and Charles Pulley. References Philip Auger, The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism Penguin 2000 Category Economy of the City of London Category Business and financial operations occupations Category Stock market Category History of the City of London stockexchange stub mk ... more details
Guy Nickalls 1866 1935 , British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics Silver Goblets & Nickalls Challenge Cup , rowing event for men s coxless pair s at the annual Henley Royal Vivian Nickalls 1871 1947 British rower Guy Oliver Nickalls 1899 1974 , British rower who competed in the 1920 Olympics Tom Nickalls 1827 1899 British stockjobber Patteson Womersley Nickalls 1877 1946 , British polo player disambiguation ... more details
wiktionarypar jobber Jobber may refer to A being or tool that jobs , pecks, or stabs, such as Jobber, a drill bit sizes length of drill bit Nut jobber, a nuthatch http www.webster dictionary.net definition Nut 20jobber Webster Dictionary.net Tree jobber or wood jobber, a woodpecker http www.webster dictionary.net definition Tree 20jobber Webster Dictionary.net Jobbing press , a type of printing press A person or corporation that engages in job production A professional wrestler who routinely loses a match see Job professional wrestling One who performs odd job s or piece work Jobbing house or jobbing center, or jobber , a type of wholesale business Jobber fuel , a middleman in the fuel industry Stockjobber , a dealer in financial securities See also lookfrom intitle Job disambiguation disambig ... more details
Tom Nickalls 1827 1899 who was a stockjobber on the stock exchange and one of the founding members of London Rowing Club . He was known as the king of the American railroad market . ref name obit cite news author coauthors title Tom Nickalls Dies in England url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F70814FD395913738DDDAB0994DD405B8985F0D3 quote Tom Nickalls, father of the famous scullers, Guy and Vivian Nickalls, died to day at Pattison Court, at the age of seventy two. When a boy Mr. Nickalls ... newspaper New York Times date May 12, 1899 accessdate 2011 03 24 ref ref cite news author coauthors title Tom Nickalls Dead url http news.google.com newspapers?id OL0IAAAAIBAJ&sjid LSkDAAAAIBAJ&pg 2018,6846700&dq nickalls father of the famous scullers guy and vivian nickalls&hl en quote Nickalls, father of the famous scullers, Guy and Vivian Nickalls, died to day at court, Redhill, at the age of 72 years. When a boy, Mr. Nickalls ... newspaper Daily Mail and Empire date May 12, 1899 accessdate 2011 03 24 ref Biography He was born in 1827 and he married Emily Quihampton . He died in 1899. ref name obit References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Nickalls, Tom ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1827 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1899 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Nickalls, Tom Category 1827 births Category 1899 deaths Category Nickalls family ... more details
Use dmy dates date March 2012 Use British English date March 2012 MedalTop MedalSport Bobsleigh MedalSilver 1924 Winter Olympics 1924 Chamonix Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics Four man MedalBottom For Ralph Broome the stockjobber and pamphleteer, see Ralph Broome pamphleteer . Ralph Howard Broome 5 July 1889 25 January 1985 was a Great Britain British bobsled der who competed during the early 1920s. He won a silver medal in the four man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix . References http sports123.com bob mo 4.html Bobsleigh four man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932 56, and since 1964 http www.databaseolympics.com players playerpage.htm?ilkid BROOMRAL01 Databaseolympics.com profile Wallenchinsky, David. 1984 . Bobsled Four Man . In The Complete Book the Olympics 1896 1980 . New York Penguin Books. p. 559. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Broome, Ralph ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Bobsledder DATE OF BIRTH 5 July 1889 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 25 January 1985 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Broome, Ralph Category Bobsledders at the 1924 Winter Olympics Category British bobsledders Category 1889 births Category 1985 deaths Category Olympic medalists in bobsleigh UK bobsleigh bio stub Winter Olympic medalist stub de Ralph Broome fr Ralph Broome ko it Ralph Broome no Ralph Broome sr fi Ralph Broome sv Ralph Broome ... more details
no footnotes date September 2011 Captain Kenneth Lockwood Order of the British Empire MBE 17 December 1911 8 October 2007 was a stockbroker and an officer in the British Army . He was one of the first six United Kingdom British prisoner of war prisoners of war to arrive at Oflag IV C , Colditz , in 1940. He made and assisted in numerous escape attempts, working with the chairman of the escape committee, Pat Reid , and was still at the castle when it was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. He was the honorary secretary of the Colditz Association for 50 years. Lockwood was born in London , the son of a Stockjobber jobber at the London Stock Exchange . He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon , and then worked for his father s firm in the City of London . He joined the Territorial Army United Kingdom Territorial Army s 22nd County of London Battalion of the London Regiment The Queen s Royal West Surreys in 1933. He was mobilized in August 1939 and trained at Yeovil before being posted to Le Mans , commanding a company of the 1st 6th Battalion of the Queen s Royal Regiment . After marching with his unit to Belgium , he was captured in the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. He was sent to Oflag VII C , at Laufen Castle Germany Laufen Castle . With six other prisoners, including Pat Reid, he dug a tunnel to escape, thought to be the first escape from a German prisoner of war camp in the Second World War . They escaped in two groups of three, with Reid leading the first group and Lockwood in the second group with Captain Harry Elliott of the Irish Guards and Captain Dick Howe of the Royal Tank Regiment . All six were recaptured and sent to Colditz Castle, where they became the first British prisoners to join three Canadians, who had arrived the previous day, and over 100 Poles, who had been there since September 1939. Lockwood made and assisted in numerous escape attempts, working with the chairman of the escape committee, Pat Reid . Reid was later replaced as escape ... more details
For the American screenwriter and son of actor Michael Landon Christopher B. Landon Infobox person name Christopher Landon image alt caption birth date Birth date 1911 03 29 birth place West Byfleet , Surrey death date Death date and age 1961 04 26 1911 03 29 death place Frognal nationality United Kingdom British other names Christopher Guy Landon known for occupation writer br author Christopher Guy Landon , known as Christopher Landon 29 March 1911 26 April 1961 was a British writer of novel s and screenplays , best known for his novel Ice Cold in Alex 1957 in literature 1957 which he adapted faithfully for the big screen creating one of the most famous of war movies, likewise entitled Ice Cold in Alex . Biography Landon was born in West Byfleet , Surrey . ref name jleethompson p227, J. Lee Thompson , Steve Chibnall, Manchester University Press, 2000 http books.google.co.uk books?id nLi AAAAIAAJ&pg PA227 Google Books ref His father was a stockjobber of Huguenot descent and he was a distant cousin of the author Perceval Landon . He was educated at Lancing College and Cambridge University . ref name jleethompson He studied medicine. Christopher Landon served with the 51st Field Ambulance in North Africa during the Second World War and with the 1st S.A. Division. He ended the war with the rank of Major in the Royal Army Service Corps . ref Burke s Landed Gentry , 1952 edition, Landon of Uxmore ref After the war he wrote several novels including A Flag in the City 1953 in literature 1953 , his first novel which was about WWII British intelligence in Teheran and their plans to destroy Germany s fifth column operations in Persia Stone Cold Dead in the Market Hornet s Nest Dead Men Rise Up Never and Unseen Enemy aka The Shadow of Time . He died of accidental alcohol and barbiturate poisoning at his home in Frognal in 1961, leaving a wife and three children. ref name jleethompson ref Accidental Death Of Novelist, The Times , Tuesday, May 02, 1961 ref References Reflist Ex ... more details
File Vivian 5558692214 be5559bce7 o.jpg thumb Nickalls on June 11, 1914 on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York File Nick 5558692346 24d023a9d2 o.jpg thumb Nickalls on June 11, 1914 on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York Vivian Nickalls 1871 1947 was a British rowing sport rower who won the Wingfield Sculls three times and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1891. Biography Nickalls was born at Farningham , Kent, the son of Tom Nickalls and his wife Emily Quihampton . He was baptized on 7 April 1872. His father was a stockjobber on the London Stock Exchange with a particular expertise in investing in American railroads. ref http books.google.com books?id KYGyWqNSCh8C&pg PA2&lpg PA2&dq 22Tom Nickalls 22&source bl&ots Fb XFJT4NN&sig fjqMNfm HLqaWwLybuwLqvrPfoA&hl en&ei DUMISpaGN9POjAepr6XFBQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 3 PPA3,M1 Elizabeth Watkins Olga in Kenya ref Nickalls was one of twelve children, of whom his brother Guy Nickalls was also a successful oarsman. Nickalls was educated at Magdalene College, Oxford and rowed with hs brother in the 1891 Boat Race . He won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1891 and the Wingfield Sculls in 1892 and 1894 while at Oxford. He joined London Rowing Club and with his brother he won the Silver Goblets at Henley in 1894, 1895 and 1896. ref http www.rowinghistory.net HRR 20US hrr 1839 1939.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839 1939 ref ref http viewfinder.english heritage.org.uk story slide.aspx?storyUid 25&slideNo 4 English Heritage Henry Taunt ref and won the Wingfield Sculls again in 1895. Nickalls married in 1898. His sister Florence married William Adolf Baillie Grohman an Anglo Austrian author. Nickalls went into his father s stockbroking business. The family had connections and property in the United States, and in 1914 Nickalls went to America to coach at the University of Pennsylvania . On arrival he was quoted as saying that he did not propose to use or teac ... more details
for Big Bang disambiguation Image Bishopsgate2.jpg thumb right Bishopsgate in the City The phrase Big Bang , used in reference to the sudden deregulation of financial markets, was coined to describe measures, including abolition of fixed commission charges and of the distinction between stockjobber s and Stock Broker stockbrokers on the London Stock Exchange and change from Open outcry open outcry to electronic trading electronic, screen based trading , enacted by the United Kingdom government in 1986. The day the London Stock Exchange s rules changed, 27 October 1986, was dubbed the Big Bang because of the increase in market activity expected from an aggregation of measures designed to precipitate a complete alteration in the structure of the market. Policy In the UK , Big Bang became one of the cornerstones of the Margaret Thatcher Thatcher government s reform programme. Prior to these reforms, the once dominant financial institutions of the City of London were failing to compete with foreign banking. While London was still a global centre of finance, it had been surpassed by New York, and was in danger of falling still further behind. Premiership of Margaret Thatcher Thatcher s government claimed that the two problems behind the decline of London banking were overregulation and the dominance of elitist old boy network s and that the solution lay in the free market doctrines of unfettered competition and meritocracy . Consequences The effects of Big Bang were dramatic, with London s place as a financial capital decisively strengthened, to the point where it is arguably the world s most important financial centre even to the present day. An economic boom created a new class of nouveau riche that has persisted for two decades, and the boom expanded beyond the City into new developments in the Isle of Dogs area, particularly that of Canary Wharf. Deregulation stimulated financial innovation and enabled new entrants to provide services. Some critics have charged that ... more details
Ralph Broome 1742 1805 was an English stockjobber , pamphleteer and satirical poet. Life and career The third son of Ralph Broome 1714 1768 of the manor of Bushton, Wiltshire , ref Citation title British History url http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 66537 accessdate 1 August 2011 place UK . ref Broome was sent as a cadet to History of India India , where he acquired Oriental languages, including Persian language Persian , and became a judge advocate with the rank of captain in the Bengal Army. While in India, Broome fathered a daughter, Miriam c. 1781 1840 , by an unknown Indian lady. The girl accompanied him back to England in about 1785. An Amelia Margaret Broome, mentioned in Ralph Broome s will, may be an illegitimate daughter of Miriam, or possibly of her father. In 1803, Miriam was married to Broome s lawyer nephew, also Ralph Broome 1781 1838 . In 1790, Broome himself married Lucy Jeffreys, a daughter of Richard Jeffreys of Penkelly, Brecknockshire , Wales , but she died at Bristol Hotwells Hot Wells in 1796. He then married the widowed Charlotte Ann Francis, n e Burney 1761 1838 , on 28 February 1798. Their only child was a son, Ralph, known as Dolph 1801 1817 . The marriage caused consternation in Charlotte s father Charles Burney , her sister Frances Burney and other members of the family, mainly because of doubts about Broome s finances, although they became reconciled to it later. ref Citation editor link Joyce Hemlow editor first Joyce editor last Hemlow title The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney... place London publisher OUP year 1972 ff at IV, p. 33n I, lxxii lxxiii IV, references in several letters pp. 31 ff., notably No. 273, pp. 118 25 . ref The Broomes moved to Bath, Somerset in about 1803, ref Citation editor link Joyce Hemlow editor first Joyce editor last Hemlow title The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney... place London publisher OUP year 1972 ff at V, p. 334n. ref where Broome rapidly deteriorated mentally and physically ... more details
File Robert Newman 1906.jpg thumb right Newman in 1906 Robert Newman 1858 4 November 1926 was an English businessman and musical impresario . He is most celebrated as the founder of the series of classical music concerts that are now known as The Proms . Born in 1858 ref Obituary Robert Newman . The Musical Times , 67 1006 , 1 December 1926. ref into a wealthy family, Newman had an initial career as stockjobber in the City of London . He also studied singing in Italy, and sang bass, which included participation in the first performance of Hubert Parry s oratorio Job . ref name Mullen cite news author Peter Mullen url http www.independent.co.uk arts entertainment music everyone knows henry wood set up the proms but who remembers the man who hired him to do it by peter mullen 1592519.html title Everyone knows Henry Wood set up the Proms. But who remembers the man who hired him to do it? work The Independent date 1995 07 21 accessdate 2009 04 12 ref He became a concert agent and gained initial experience organising orchestral concerts with Frederic Hymen Cowen at Covent Garden . In 1893, Newman became the first manager of the Queen s Hall . ref name Matthews cite news author Colin Matthews url http tls.timesonline.co.uk article 0,,25342 2648022,00.html title The evolution of the Proms work The Times Literary Supplement date 2007 08 01 accessdate 2009 04 12 ref He had the idea for a series of concerts at the Queen s Hall, at affordable prices for a mass audience, with a proportion of the audience able to promenade in a designated space without seats. Newman hired Henry Wood conductor Henry Wood as the conductor for these promenade concerts , and summarised his idea to Wood blockquote I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages. Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music . ref cite news author Ivan Hewett title The Proms and the Promenerders url http www.telegraph.co.uk arts mai ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2007 Citations missing date December 2007 Pieter Langendijk Haarlem , 25 July 1683 Haarlem, 9 or 18 July 1756 was a damask weaver, city artist, dramatist, and poet. Life Pieter was the son of Arend Kort, a mason born in Langedijk . His father died when he was young so he and his mother began a textile business. In 1695, they moved to the Hague , then Amsterdam. With jobs in a damask weaving and as an office clerk, Pieter earned enough to support them both. Around 1708 Pieter took a course in drawing and painting with Frans van Steenwijk . On his 28th birthday his Don Quichot op de Bruiloft van Kamacho appeared. It proved a success and began a permanent run at the Schouwberg of Van Campen . The farces De zwetser and The mutual marriage deception appeared the next year. Pieter wrote yet more comedies in the style of Moli re , who he also translated and wrote about. With Hermanus Angelkot junior Hermanus Angelkot , he wrote Cato , dedicated to the mayor Nicolaes Witsen . Quincampoix, or the gamblers on the Stock Exchange became very famous, written in the notorious year 1720 that John Law economist John Law ruined many investors in Paris. Arlequin Actionist was a commedia dell arte farce on the stockjobber y, one act long, with a real fight, dance and music. In 1722, he was appointed as city artist to Haarlem, while his mother meanwhile took to drink. He had a house outside the city, while he could still get out the city. After his mother died, he married a sickly and moody woman who died eleven years later. Pieter wrote only a single tragedy, at the end of his life. In 1747, he had to sell a large part of its books and possessions. Pieter lived in Haarlem s Proveniershuis , where he was given free accommodation in return for writing a history of the city. The previous description of the city was from 1628, written by Samuel Ampzing . On his sickbed he wanted to be baptized at home, and only five days did Pieter survive after this religious p ... more details
Other persons John Stokes Sir John Heydon Romaine Stokes, Order of the British Empire KBE 23 July 1917 &ndash 27 June 2003 , was a British politician and a Conservative Party UK Conservative Party Member of Parliament . Education and Early Career The son of Victor Romaine Stokes, a stockjobber , Stokes was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Haileybury College and The Queen s College, Oxford Queen s College, Oxford . ref name Telegraph cite news url http www.telegraph.co.uk news obituaries 1434417 Sir John Stokes.html title Obituary Daily Telegraph accessdate 9 March 2011 location London work The Daily Telegraph date 30 June 2003 ref He stood for election as president of the Oxford University Conservative Association on a platform of support for appeasement and Francisco Franco General Franco he was beaten by seven votes by future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Edward Heath . He served as president of The Oxford Monarchists. ref name Independent cite news url http www.independent.co.uk news obituaries sir john stokes 548339.html title Obituary The Independent accessdate 9 March 2011 location London date 30 June 2003 ref During World War II Stokes served in the Royal Fusiliers , rising to the rank of Major. He took part in the expedition to Battle of Dakar Dakar in 1940 and was wounded in North African Campaign North Africa in 1943. From 1944 6 he served as military assistant to Major General Edward Spears in Beirut and Damascus . ref name Telegraph ref name Independent After the war Stokes joined Imperial Chemical Industries ICI as a personnel officer, moving to British Celanese in 1951 as personnel manager and to Courtaulds in 1957 as deputy personnel manager. He was a partner in his own firm of personnel consultants, Clive and Stokes, from 1959 to 1980. ref name Telegraph ref name Independent Political career In 1964, Stokes contested Gloucester UK Parliament constituency Gloucester for the Conservatives. Two years later, he co ... more details
For his son, also an Olympic silver medalist Guy Oliver Nickalls Infobox Person name Guy Nickalls image Nickalls 5537493922 6b328c147b o.jpg imagesize caption Nickalls circa 1915 birth date birth date 1866 11 13 death date death date 1935 07 08 birth place Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 20px education Eton College and Magdalen College Oxford, occupation Rowing sport rower relations Vivian Nickalls , brother parents Tom Nickalls & Emily Quilhampton children Guy Oliver Nickalls File Nickalls G Vanity Fair 1889 07 20.jpg thumb Vanity Fair Spy Cartoon from 1889 Guy Nickalls 13 November 1866 8 July 1935 was a Great Britain British Rowing sport rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of the British eight that won gold, won 22 events at Henley Royal Regatta and won the Wingfield Sculls three times. Early life and education Nickalls was born at Sutton, London Sutton , then in Surrey , the son of Tom Nickalls 1827 1899 who was a stockjobber on the stock exchange and one of the founding members of London Rowing Club . ref cite news author coauthors title Tom Nickalls Dies in England url http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F70814FD395913738DDDAB0994DD405B8985F0D3 quote Tom Nickalls, father of the famous scullers, Guy and Vivian Nickalls, died to day at Pattison Court, at the age of seventy two. When a boy Mr. Nickalls ... newspaper New York Times date May 12, 1899 accessdate 2011 03 24 ref ref cite news author coauthors title Tom Nickalls Dead url http news.google.com newspapers?id OL0IAAAAIBAJ&sjid LSkDAAAAIBAJ&pg 2018,6846700&dq nickalls father of the famous scullers guy and vivian nickalls&hl en quote Nickalls, father of the famous scullers, Guy and Vivian Nickalls, died to day at court, Redhill, at the age of 72 years. When a boy, Mr. Nickalls ... newspaper Daily Mail and Empire date May 12, 1899 accessdate 2011 03 24 ref His mother, Emily, was the first woman to climb Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa Monta Rosa in the same week. ref name puddin ... more details
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