As an articled clerk, I spent most of 1974 at Pinners Hall, Austin Friars, working on the receivership of Triumph Investment Trust, one of the casualties of the secondary banking crisis. In the course of my work, I discovered that 45 years earlier Pinners Hall had seen another crisis: the collapse of Clarence Hatry’s companies and the stock exchange crash that followed. That was my first encounter with Clarence Hatry.
This book’s gestation has taken so long partly because I was for many years distracted by other activities but also because of Hatry’s elusiveness. In tracking him down I have relied upon the services of many libraries and archives without which the project would have been impossible. I am especially grateful ...
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