Golden Dolly
John Pemble: Rich Britons, 24 September 2009
Who Were the Rich? A Biographical Directory of British Wealth-Holders. Vol. I: 1809-39
by William Rubinstein.
Social Affairs Unit, 516 pp., £20, May 2009,978 1 904863 39 7 Show More
by William Rubinstein.
Social Affairs Unit, 516 pp., £20, May 2009,
“... than a million, at the age of 91. And the oldest person in Britain was also among the richest. Elizabeth Ramsden died in 1817, worth £140,000, at the age of 106. The average age at death of the whole adult population was probably 50 at most. In Britain 200 years ago, the more you got the longer you lived; and the longer you lived the more you got. This ... ”