AN ASPECT OF FAMILY ENTERPRISE IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

Examines the weakness of industrial and financial organization in Great Britain by focusing on the failure of a country bank in the nineteenth century. Report that the bank was financed by profits from a boot and shoe business owned by the same family; Report that unlimited liability and mismanagement at the bank precipitated the liquidation of the manufacturing firm; History of the Kettering Bank in Great Britain, run by Thomas and John Gotch in the nineteenth century; Bankruptcy faced by Gotch & Sons in 1857 due to abuse of credit and over-trading; Practice of holding deeds as security against a mortgage; Discussion of the virility of family business during the industrial revolution in England.