The Lloyds of Birmingham - With Some Account of the Founding of Lloyds Bank #247502

Resorting to imagery, one might liken the biographer of an individual to the navigator of a river from its source to the sea, always in the main stream and the' biographer of a family to a similar navigator with an extended charter, who even before embarking spends much time among the springs in the mountains whence the river flows, and, once afloat, urges his boat down every tributary, however small, and into every back water.