Excerpt from Emmanuel Burden: Merchant of Thames St., In the City of London, Exporter of Hardware; A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days and Death
Though no prominent citizen is now-a-days permitted to pass "beyond the veil" without an account of him being drawn up for posterity, yet books of this sort have recently grown so common that some warrant for the publication of a new biography may well be demanded.
Mr Burden's public position, combined with his sterling piety and considerable wealth, would alone merit such recognition: to these must be added the fact that he was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Surrey. His connection, moreover, with Imperial Finance has, through the medium of the Press, lent a very general interest to his name even in those parts of London with which he was personally unfamiliar.
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