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Richard Puller (1747–1826) was a prominent English merchant banker in London. He has sometimes been identified as the pseudonymous economic writer

Piercy Ravenstone Piercy Ravenstone was a pseudonym used by a nineteenth-century political economist whose work led him to being variously described as a socialist, a tory and as an institutionalist. His contribution was noted by David Ricardo and Karl Marx and br ...

, considered a precursor of Karl Marx; but scholarly sources generally now follow the suggestion of

Piero Sraffa Piero Sraffa (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book ''Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'' is taken as founding the neo- ...

that Ravenstone was Richard Puller the younger (1789–1831), his son.

Life

He was the son of Christopher Puller (died 1789), also a prominent London merchant banker. His father was a director of the

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of ...

, while he was a director of the South Sea Company; Richard and Charles Puller, of 10 Broadstreet Buildings, were the London bankers of John Adams during the 1780s; Adams refers also to the firm as Conde & Puller. This was also the period of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and Richard Puller acted as an agent in a case concerning a captured Dutch ship. In later life Puller resided at Painswick Court in Gloucestershire. He died there, on 5 December 1826.

Family

Puller married Selina Wall, daughter of Thomas Wall of

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, Surrey. (Wall is so called. The Wall family of Albury Park were Charles Wall of Barings Bank and his wife Francis, daughter of

Sir Francis Baring Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (18 April 1740 – 11 September 1810) was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets. Early life He was born at Larkbeare House near Exeter, s ...

; they were the parents of

Charles Baring Wall Charles Baring Wall (1795 – 14 October 1853) was at various times the Member of Parliament for Guildford, Wareham, Weymouth and Salisbury. Wall was initially a Conservative but shifted to the Whigs as an MP for Guildford. He then belonged to t ...

, the Member of Parliament. The house was bought in 1811 from Samuel Thornton, sold in 1819 to Henry Drummond. Charles Wall's parents were Thomas Wall (1721–1812) and Elizabeth Ellis.) The following were their children: *

Sir Christopher Puller ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only ...

(1774–1824) *Henry Puller (1782–1813), an officer in the Bengal Army. He died at Rangpur. *Richard Puller the younger (1789–1831). He is now the usual identification of the pseudonymous economic writer, Piercy Ravenstone. It has also been suggested that the elder Richard Puller might be Ravenstone, and this identification is made in the '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. *Harriet, who married

John Norman Pearson John Norman Pearson (1787–1865) of Tunbridge Wells and London was a prolific Victorian writer on religious subjects. Life Son of the surgeon John Pearson (1758–1826), born 7 December 1787, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. There ...

. *Charlotte Louisa *Selina Eliza, the third daughter, married John Cholmondeley, rector of Brandiston. He was a brother of Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Puller, Richard 1747 births 1826 deaths English bankers English merchants