Golden Dolly
John Pemble: Rich Britons, 24 September 2009
Who Were the Rich? A Biographical Directory of British Wealth-Holders. Vol. I: 1809-39
by William Rubinstein.
Social Affairs Unit, 516 pp., £20, May 2009,978 1 904863 39 7 Show More
by William Rubinstein.
Social Affairs Unit, 516 pp., £20, May 2009,
“... the golden dolly league in Regency London was the Coutts squad: the widow and three daughters of Thomas Coutts the banker. All were flush with cash from his gigantic fortune (probably well over a million) and all married aristocrats. The widow, 45 at her husband’s death, was perhaps no longer a dolly; but no dolly came more golden. She’d inherited most ... ”