Talk:Humphry Morice (Governor of the Bank of England)

Resources for expansion

The article as it stands draws heavily on the History of Parliament, and tends to focus on his political career. Other things that remain to be discussed:

• The ODNB has an article on him, which goes into greater detail on his trading activities, including his mercantile methods, relations with the Dutch, and treatment of slaves, his testimony to and in Parliament on behalf of Africa and West Indies traders, and his friendship with Robert Walpole.
• This book (p. 95) on David Le Marchand describes a carving thought to be of Morice and incidentally mentions that his debts may have been contracted in support of Whig electioneering, in hopes of a peerage. Intriguing if speculative.
• The Bank of England Museum has his portrait [1], which has been described by reliable sources ("an intelligent-looking man").
• Rawley (pp. 202–3) describes Morice's mercantile practices in extenso. (He's also the author of the ODNB entry.)
• This website calls him "a noted dealer in cowrie shells from the Maldives," but a better source may be necessary. See a slightly oblique reference here (p. 99).
• This account of post-mortem litigation is mostly tedious legal minutia, but it opens with a summary of his affairs at his death and his surviving family (one daughter, Judith, married Sir George Lee).

There is ample room for expansion, particularly on his trading activities, including slaving. Choess (talk) 03:10, 23 December 2013 (UTC)