Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
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 the House of Commons briefly. He was friendly with Arthur Lee (diplomat), Silas Deane, Philip Skene and Benedict Arnold.
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 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 in Paris during the American Revolutionary War.
Edward Bancroft