| Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25057] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 07:40 |
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The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
Tuke."
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25068 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 18:22 |
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On 29 Apr 2005 22:40:11 -0700, frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
>The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
>old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
>1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
>Tuke."
That's nice. How is that linked to Tolkien?
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25069 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 19:09 |
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Natman (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<14c7711o74j8nojj1bds7ca8trp0cb1nbj [at] 4ax.com>:
> On 29 Apr 2005 22:40:11 -0700, frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
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>>The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
>>old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
>>1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
>>Tuke."
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> That's nice. How is that linked to Tolkien?
We are suppose to assume that the spelling of the surname has altered over
the years, so that Sir Anthony is a descendant of the Old Took of Took Hall
himself.
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25073 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 19:40 |
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In article <14c7711o74j8nojj1bds7ca8trp0cb1nbj [at] 4ax.com>,
Natman <nat_mann [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 29 Apr 2005 22:40:11 -0700, frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
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>>The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
>>old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
>>1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
>>Tuke."
>
>That's nice. How is that linked to Tolkien?
There's an important family in the Shire called Took. In the
Westron, Tuk with a long mark over the u.
I don't consider it a real connection myself, and I bet the OP
doesn't either but was being silly.
Shippey points out somewhere that there are the Tooks, who live
in the Tookland, and the Marchbucks, later the Brandybucks, who
live in the Buckland, and that "buckland" in archaic English
derives from "book-land" meaning land that had been deeded to the
Church and could never be sold back to seculars. Which probably
has nothing to do with the Bank either.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt [at] kithrup.com
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25074 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 20:33 |
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In article <IFrt33.CMp [at] kithrup.com>, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <14c7711o74j8nojj1bds7ca8trp0cb1nbj [at] 4ax.com>,
> Natman <nat_mann [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>>On 29 Apr 2005 22:40:11 -0700, frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
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>>>The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
>>>old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
>>>1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
>>>Tuke."
>>
>>That's nice. How is that linked to Tolkien?
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> There's an important family in the Shire called Took. In the
> Westron, Tuk with a long mark over the u.
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> I don't consider it a real connection myself, and I bet the OP
> doesn't either but was being silly.
Especially since the Old Took shows up in the Hobbit which predates
Sir Anthony Tuke.
Also I think it is Gurney not Gurrey and Bevan not Bevar that are two
of the Quaker families associated with Barclays.
Emma
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25080 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 21:56 |
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<snip>
Pah! A load of rubbish. If _any_ bank has connections to Tolkien, it is
Lloyds Bank, with its black horses...
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25081 ] |
Sa, 30 April 2005 22:01 |
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Natman wrote:
> On 29 Apr 2005 22:40:11 -0700, frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
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> >The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
> >old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
> >1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The
> >Iron Tuke."
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> That's nice. How is that linked to Tolkien?
Tolkien banked with Barclays, obviously...
- W. Citoan
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where I lie, let him surpass me in some of my exploits.
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #25084 ] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 01:26 |
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Yes! and bought his insurance from the Thorongil (I mean Eagle Star)
insurance company!
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| Re: Tolkien Link to Barclays Bank [message #47345 ] |
Do, 26 Mai 2005 03:33 |
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In alt.fan.tolkien frisbieinstein [at] yahoo.com wrote:
: The board of directors of Barclays Bank has always been dominated by
: old Quaker families, Barclay, Bevar, Tuke, Gurrey, and Tritton. From
: 1950 to 1962 the chairman of the board was Sir Anthony Tuke, "The Iron
: Tuke."
Bevan and Gurney spelling corrections are elsewhere on the thread;
you forgot Buxton,the family from which the most recent founding-family
chairman came(he retired in the 1990s).I am afraid that the family
influence has essentially disappeared in recent years.
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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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