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James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.
Our story bears testament to the vision of our founders, spanning centuries and continents. 1853 James Wilson helps found the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China under a royal charter from Queen Victoria.
The Chartered Bank began when Queen Victoria granted a royal charter to Scotsman James Wilson in 1853. Chartered opened its first branches in Bombay , Calcutta , and Shanghai in 1858; branches in Hong Kong and Singapore followed in 1859.
Jul 13, 2020 · Today, we examine James Wilson, the Pennsylvanian and Scottish founder behind popular sovereignty, the structure of the judiciary, and many of the most notable compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
Sep 2, 2016 · There was also the College of Henricopolis or University of Henrico established by the Virginia Company near Richmond, Virginia. This institution received a royal charter in 1618 and operated a school for several years before being destroyed with the town during the Indian Massacre of 1622.
It has been asserted, on somewhat doubtful evidence, that it was at Wilson's suggestion that Congress, on June 9, 1775, advised Massachusetts to set up a new government based on her original charter, as a means of replacing royal governments, major obstacles to reform, by new and more democratic governments.^ Whether or not Wilson.
Jun 12, 2024 · On 16 February 1770 Captain James Cook in his ship the Endeavour first sighted the Canterbury peninsula. He thought it was an island, and named it Banks Island after the ship’s botanist, Joseph Banks.
