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Family Network

In: Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England

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  • Mabel Winter

    (University of Sheffield)

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To embark on a financial and commercial business in seventeenth-century England an individual required connections, skill, and capital to succeed. In most cases these three factors were provided first and foremost by family. This chapter argues that whilst Thompson and Company was itself a partnership and a series of projects, it was also part of a wider family business that involved the kinship networks of the Nelthorpe and Thompson families. The families provided the partners with education, contacts, and support during their careers, and the experience gained through the family business helps to explain how and why the partners came to set up a venture like Thompson and Company. However, as well as commercial support, the families also entrenched all four partners in a wider network of religious and political alliance that was as risky as it was supportive.

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  • Mabel Winter, 2022. "Family Network," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England, chapter 0, pages 103-129, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-90570-5_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90570-5_5
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