Nicholas Barbon was an English physician, economist, financier and property developer whose rebuilding projects helped shape post-Fire London. He pioneered speculative urban development, promoted fire insurance and mortgage lending, and advanced influential economic ideas in works such as A Discourse of Trade. - AsNotedIn
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| 1672/00/00 | Nicholas Barbon acquires the York House estate demolishes the mansion and subdivides it into building plots, leasing them to builders and tenants and creating new streets that become a model for speculative urban development in Restoration London. | Developer | York House Gate, Strand | London | |||
| 1690/00/00 | "A Discourse of Trade" by Nicholas Barbon, MD, is printed for the auther by Tho Milbourn, London. | Author | A Discourse of Trade (1690) |
1 Creative Work by Nicholas Barbon »
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| A Discourse of Trade (1690) | Author | Treatise | 1690/00/00 |
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