Colonial Despatches

John Gurney Hoare was a British banker in a long line of influential London bankers.1 He was also a member of the African Civilization Society.2 He is mentioned in this letter, which discusses the discovery of gold in Haida Gwaii.

• 1. The Bankers' Magazine, Volume 12 (London: Waterlow and sons, 1852), 547; Susan Drain, Hoare, Louisa Gurney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• 2. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (London: W. Clowes and sons), 13.

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