Phantom Gold
John Pemble: Victorian Capitalism, 7 January 2016
“... In the second mania, ten years later, George Hudson followed a spectacular trajectory from rags to riches, then from riches to penury and disgrace. The overweening monarch of the midland and north-eastern networks, friend of Prince Albert and snapper-up of country houses, he devised the ruse later known as the Ponzi scheme ... ”