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Withers, Hartley, 1867-1950
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1867-1950
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WITHERS, HARTLEY, fourth son of Henry Hartley Withers, Granendale, Lancs., stockbroker, and Jane Livingston, dau. of Matthew Dobson Lowndes, Liverpool; b. 15 Jul 1867; adm. 16 Jun 1881; QS 1881; Capt. of the School 1885; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1886, matr. 15 Oct 1886; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1888, 3rd cl. Lit. Hum. 1890; BA 1890; MA Cambridge 1938; Assistant master, Clifton Coll. 1890; Stock Exchange clerk 1891-3; entered City office of The Times 1894, City Editor 1906-10; City Editor, Morning Post 1910-1; with Seligman Brothers 1911-5; Director of Financial Enquiries, Treasury 1915-6; Editor, The Economist 1916-21, and of Financial Supplement, The Saturday Review 1921-3; director, Allied Investors’ Trusts; author, The Meaning of Money, 1909, and other works; m. 1st, 8 Aug 1896 Letitia, widow of Henry Harrison, Holywood House, Holywood, co. Down, Ireland, mother of Henry Harrison (adm. 1881, qv), and dau. of Robert James Tennent MP, Rush Park, Belfast, Ireland; m. 2nd, 1921 Alice, dau. of J. R. Elliott; d. 21 Mar 1950. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.