George Fife Angas (1789 - 1879) was a merchant, banker, landowner and
philanthropist. To quote from the author’s preface:
"He was one of the Fathers and Founders of South Australia; he originated the
South Australian Company, the Bank of South Australia, the National Provincial
Bank of England, and the Union Bank of Australia; he fought the battle of the
slaves in Honduras and the Mosquito Coast, and obtained an Act of Parliament for
their emancipation; he circumvented a reigning monarch and stayed a despotic
religious persecution; his foresight and shrewdness won for Great Britain the
possession of New Zealand as a colony ..."
"He realised a large fortune, lost it in pure philanthropy, and, after years of poverty and distress, regained it fourfold through the reckless land purchases
of an adventurer; he established the first Sunday School Union in the North of
England, was one of the founders of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society and
other well-known institutions, and was ... one of the leading philanthropists of
this country."
"Whatever place Mr Angas may take in the annals of this country, his name will
be an abiding monument in South Australia; and when the history of that colony
is written, it will be found, that he must occupy a very prominent position in
its records".
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