CORN FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE AND BEYOND, 1780-1800: THE FIRM OF CORRIE, GLADSTONE AND BRADSHAW.

Discusses the partnership of Edgar Corrie, John Gladstone and Jackson Bradshaw during the regional corn deficit in South Lancashire, England. Industrialisation in the last decades of the eighteenth century; Why cereal agriculture diminished; Implications of the corn problem for South Lancashire; Issue of preserving standards among dealers; Corn-trading connections; Growing market potential; Approach of Edgar Corrie, Gladstone and Bradshaw to corn marketing; Corrie's plan for a major speculation in American grain; Success of the firm.