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See also:NICHOLAS See also:BARBON (c. 164o-1698)
, See also:English economist, probably the son of Praise-See also:god See also:Barbon, was See also:born in See also:London, studied See also:medicine at See also:Leiden, graduated M.D. at See also:Utrecht in 1661, and was admitted an honorary See also:fellow of the See also:College of Physicians in 1664
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He took a considerable See also:part in the rebuilding of London after the See also:great See also:fire of 1666, and has a claim to be considered the institutor of fire-See also:insurance in See also:England, which he started some-where about r680
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He was M.P. for Bramber in 1690 and 1695
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He founded a See also:land See also:bank which, according to contemporaries, was fairly successful and was See also:united with that of See also: |
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