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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Moscrop | | | First names | William | | | Rank/ occupation | Banker | | | Unit | Hindostan Bank | | | Death date | 13 Jan 1801 | | | Place of death | Calcutta  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Jul 1802 | | | Page number | 685 | | | Detail | At Calcutta, William Moscrop, esq. one of the three founders of the Hindostan bank, which was opened on the 4th of January 1788; by which he acquired a very ample fortune, which descends to his baby child, a daughter, born September 29, 1800. He was married, first, in 1792, to Miss Sarah Aveling, daughter of Capt. R.B. Aveling, who died in 1895; 2dly, in 1797, to Miss Anne Long, who survives him. Mr. Moscrop was an amiable and generous man, and was an admirable accomptant. He passed through the grammar-school at Berwick under that able and learned scholar the Rev. Joseph Rumney, who has for nearly 50 years conducted that free-school. At the age of 19 he came to the banking-house of Messrs. Browns, Collison, and Tritton, in London, where he remained some years. When a change took place in that firm, he went to India, and was placed in the Calcutta bank as a clerk, where he was much respected. Having made in a few years some opulent connections, he was solicited to join Messrs. Redhead and Gardner in opening a new bank in that town; when Fortune still smiled upon his laudable endeavours, and he is said to have died worth some £150,000. His father was Joseph Moscrop, of Berwick, merchant, and distributor of stamps in that district, who died there some years ago. He has a brother, Henry, a surgeon, now in India, a deserving young man, with considerable abilities. |
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