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tions, and erect good appliances Removes to 

 Slough Connection with London Companies 

 and other financial operations Reputation 

 for being fortunate as well as astute The 

 Newcastle school of politics David Urquhart, 

 Joseph Cowen and John Morley Allhusen 

 associated with Cobden and Bright, and, like 

 them, a thorough Free Trader The Cobden 

 Treaty, 1860 Christian Allhusen and E. K. 

 Muspratt represent the alkali trade Allhusen's 

 connection with the Northumberland and 

 Durham District Bank The story of the 

 Consett Iron Works Consett Spanish Ore Co. 

 Limited Allhusen's foresight Elswick Hall, 

 his residence, purchased for the public by the 

 Corporation of Newcastle Trade politics 

 The Gladstone banquet, 1862 A Unionist 

 His success as a man of business 231 



VIII. PETER SPENCE. 



A Puritan The high repute in which his 

 parents were held Born at Brechin, 19th 

 February, 1806 Severe early training 

 Apprenticed to a grocer in Perth Poetical 

 gifts Early efforts in poetry His humour 

 Perth Spence turns to scientific studies A 

 younger brother, who became superintendent 

 engineer at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth, 

 afterwards a naval architect and consulting 

 engineer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Peter 

 Spence marries Agnes Mudie, 1831. She died 

 1858, leaving four sons and four daughters 

 The grocery business not a success Situation 



