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NICHOLAS BARBON (c. 164o-1698)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 389 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . He was M.P. for Bramber in 1690 and 1695 . 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:John Briscoe in r696 . He died in 1698 . His writings are interesting as ex-pressing views much in advance of his See also:time and very near akin to those of See also:modern times on such important topics as value, See also:rent and See also:foreign See also:trade . The more important were See also:Apology for the Builder; or a Discourse showing the Cause and Effects of the Increase of See also:Building (1685); A Discourse of Trade (169o); and A Discourse Concerning Coining the New See also:Money Lighter (1606) .

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