'Gresham', (c1519-1579) 1830. Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (c1519-1579) English merchant and financier educated at St Paul's School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge who acted on behalf of King Edward VI and his half-sisters, queens Mary I and Elizabeth I. He founded the Royal Exchange in the City of London in 1565. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]
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