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WILLIAM NEWMARCH (1820-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 520 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:NEWMARCH (1820-1882)  , See also:English economist and statistician, was See also:born at See also:Thirsk, See also:Yorkshire, on the 28th of See also:January 182o . He settled in See also:London in 1846 as an See also:official of the See also:Agra See also:Bank, but resigned in 1851 on his See also:appointment as secretary of the Globe See also:Insurance See also:Company . This See also:post he held till 1862,. when he became See also:chief officer in the banking-See also:house of Glyn, See also:Mills & Co., in whose employ he remained until 1881 . Notwithstanding the continuous pressure of an active business See also:life he found See also:time to contribute largely many valuable articles to the magazines and See also:newspapers, and took an active See also:part in the proceedings of the Royal Statistical Society (of which he was one of the honorary secretaries, editor of its See also:journal, and in 1869–1871 See also:president) and the See also:Political See also:Economy See also:Club . He was also elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society . His extensive knowledge of banking was displayed in the See also:evidence which he gave before the select See also:committee on the Bank Acts in 1857 . He collaborated with See also:Thomas See also:Tooke in the two final volumes of his See also:History of Prices and was responsible for the greater part of the See also:work in those volumes . For nineteen years he wrote an admirable survey. of the commercial history of the See also:year in the Economist . He died at See also:Torquay on the 23rd of See also:March 1882 . After his See also:death his See also:friends founded, in perpetuation of his memory, a See also:Newmarch Lectureship in economic See also:science and See also:statistics at University See also:College, London .

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