Henry Thornton

1760 - 1815

Titles on this disk:

• author: An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain

Quotation:

• (22 October, 2007) Friedrich Hayek rediscovers the importance of Henry Thornton’s early 19th century work on “paper credit” and its role in financing the British Empire (1802)

About this person:

Thornton was a merchant banker and founder of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers which included William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharp, and Zacharay Macaulay.