Author: GELDART, MRS THOMAS.
Title: Memorials of Samuel Gurney.
Description: London: W. and F.G. Cash, 1857. 1st edition. Memoir of the English banker and philanthropist from the Quaker, Gurney family, of Norwich. He was the brother of the social reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry. Pp.viii/156/24 (publisher's catalogue), portrait engraved frontispiece, tanning to title page and occasional light spotting, yellow endpapers. Brown blind-stamped cloth slightly rubbed, gilt title to front and spine, slight sunning to spine with wear to top and tail of spine and bumps to corners. G+."" During the later years of his life, charitable and philanthropic undertakings, such as penal reform and criminal justice, almost monopolized Gurney's attention. He took part in the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention, and was Chairman for the start of the second in 1843. Gurney was a liberal patron of the infant colony of Liberia, kept up a correspondence with President Roberts, and for his many gifts was rewarded by his name being given to a town of Gallenas in 1851. (wiki).

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