The worst trades in history… the Darien scheme
May 13, 2022
1 minute
William Paterson was born in Tinwald, Scotland, in 1658, and spent much of his 20s working as a merchant in the West Indies. In 1687 he returned to London and made his fortune with the Merchant Taylors’
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