203:"A Bank was established at Kingsbridge in the month of February, 1806, by Messrs. Walter Prideaux, John Square, Joseph Hingston, and Walter Prideaux junior. It was first opened in a house on the West side of Fore street nearly opposite the late Buttermarket, and on the North side of Millman's Lane which communicates with the West backlet. An excellent stone mansion however, with an appropriate room for this concern, having been erected by the junior partner on the East side of Fore Street Hill, facing the houses a little above the Quakers' meeting, the business was removed thither in 1808; and, the second partner being dead, but replaced by his son of the same Christian name, and the third removed to Plymouth, where he carries on a similar establishment, the notes of the present firm bear the designation of "Prideaux, Square, and Prideaux," whose Loudon correspondents are messieurs Masterman, Peters, Mildred, & Co. No, 2. White-Hart Court, Gracechurch Street"
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Prideaux (i.e. Walter Prideaux (1769-1855) "Junior") and John Roope erected extensive machinery at the former Kingsbridge corn-mill, which they converted into a woollen manufactory, where for a number of years the serge or long-ell trade was carried on, to supply the East India
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Kingsbridge in Devon (whose partners were Walter Prideaux (1741-1829) "Senior", John Square, Joseph Hingston and Walter Prideaux (1769-1855) "Junior" (son of Walter Prideaux (1741-1829) "Senior") was dissolved by mutual consent to allow for the retirement of Joseph Hingston (who as Hawkins relates
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Cookworthy Museum in Kingsbridge possesses a one pound banknote issued by the "Kingsbridge Bank", dated in writing 1 January 1825 and signed by Walter Prideaux jnr, with a crest on left. The back bears a red and black design with "G.R. IV" with central crest, five pence above and 'ONE' below.
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were appointed on 1 October 1825 and again on 6 October 1825, against the firm of John Square, Walter
Prideaux (Junior) and Walter Were Prideaux, bankers of Kingsbridge. Dividends from the bankruptcy were paid to creditors at the King's Arms Inn at Kingsbridge on 31 March 1830.
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Hingston's new partner in the Plymouth bank was Walter Prideaux (d. 1832), a cousin of the Kingsbridge bankers, a son of George Prideaux of Kingsbridge by his wife Anna Debell Cookworthy, and a Quaker associated with the
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Prideaux (1769-1855) "Junior" (by his wife Sarah Were) was Walter Were Prideaux (1792-1878), one of the partners in the Kingsbridge Bank on its bankruptcy in 1825.
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Genealogical Account of the Various Families Descended from Francis Fox, of St. Germans, Cornwall: to which is appended a pedigree of the Crokers, of Lineham, and many other families connected with
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Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, ref:874/69/26 "Assignment of mortgage, 1 Joseph
Hingston and Walter Prideaux of Plymouth, bankers, and Robert Were Fox of Bristol, confectioner, etc, dated 24 February
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The name of the Hingston & Prideaux Bank, which although it encountered financial difficulties appears to have escaped the fate of its competitor at Kingsbridge, was later changed to
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In 1805 Walter Prideaux (d.1832), the Plymouth banker, married Sarah-Ball Hingston, a daughter of his partner Joseph Hingston (1764-1835) (Senior), merchant, of
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in Devon, and within one year of its establishment the first branch had been opened at
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