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1898. 58. Harrison, op. , p. 176. 59. , pp. 174–6. 60. Hooley, op. , p. 131. 61. The Times, 2 Aug. 1898. 62. Harris, op. , pp. 756–7, cited by Hannah, op. , pp. 20–21. 63. Harris, op. , p. 757. 64. Alford, W D & H O Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry 1786–1965 (London, 1973), p. 261. 65. Actual profits were £162,000, but this was for 13 months, so the prediction was remarkably accurate: The Times, 5 Feb. 1898. 66. ‘George Lawson Johnston’ in Jeremy, DBB, Vol. cit. 67. Saturday Review, Vol.
Illustrated Mail, 1 Dec. 1900; Norfolk Standard, 6 Dec. 1900; Midlothian Journal, 4 Jan. 1901. 20. Johnston, op. , p. 7. 21. Conversation with The Hon. Hugh de Beauchamp Lawson Johnston, 3 March 1983. 22. Johnston, op. , pp. 16–19. 23. The Times, 13 Aug. 1898. 24. Johnston, op. , pp. 11 and 20. 25. The Times, 16 Aug. 1898. 26. The Times, 2 Aug. 1898. 27. Ibid. 28. Johnston, op. , p. 2. 29. See above, p. 24. 30. Johnston’s typescript, op. , pp. 8–17. 31. Grocers Journal, 24 Oct. 1896, p. 34. 32.
Parisian control was tantamount to giving control of loan operations to the French government, especially as several Ottoman Bank directors were also regents of the Bank of France. 29 Even though the diminution of British influences in the Bank may have been exaggerated, at least for the 1890s, the minimal correspondence with Vincent in the Foreign Office archives (compared with, say, his contemporary at the PDA, Caillard) show the bank’s loose links with British officialdom. The bank’s intimacy with the Ottoman government was manifest throughout Vincent’s years as Director-General.