Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
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Paul Wentworth was a lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam, a stockbroker in London, a British intelligence agent to Lord North during the American War of Independence, and a politician who sat in th
Before open war between France and Britain, Pierre Beaumarchais was at the center of an arms traffic to support American Insurgents.
The Brandenburg House, a splendid mansion in Dutch style, made out of bricks, overlooking the Thames; drawn by S. Owen, engraved by W. Cooke (1809).
Edward Bancroft
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Edward Bartholomew Bancroft was an American physician and chemist who became a double agent, spying for both the United States and Great Britain while serving as secretary to the American commission i
Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
…Wentworth. He studied law (LL. D.) and in 1756 he married a rich widow in Surinam, where he worked at court of justice. In 1764 he hired the chemist Edward Bancroft to survey and improve his Surinam plantation. After he inherited a sugar and coffee plantation he left for London. He established himself as a stockbroker…
Edward Bancroft