The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

He had n

tuber la

Id, with instructions to pay that sum on three policies
.cance of the Independent and West Middlesex Life
Fire Assurance Company, numbered 3,365, 3,366, and

of insu

the
ue office in B 1

that K

and to receive the
)ple of the'concern, and he went h
-street,. and asked to see Mr. Knowles,

paid over to him the in(

son of tall stature, who said
Mei, and seemed to be abont
'arance, and he (Mr. Connell)
his clients and received their
,h reluctance that the ►zioney

receipt

vas paid, but the instructions were positive.
Sir Peter Laurie.—There has been nothing so flagrant as

in consequent

p by tiro;

vorkhouses. I have given vier
elatives requested that

two fellowKno.wles and
:!d list of individuals who,

is company, are now in

Ann Tyson, Gloucest
T. S. Edinburgh ....

White,

Emily Barber, London

lariScammell,

.s of a few

Sarah Back, Birmingham
Maria Smith, Newbury
Samuel Craig, Armagh
L. 8., Plymouth
W. L. Lanagan, Waterford
Miss Tilden, Dover
J. S. M., Kidderminster
A. 8., ditto
Captain Harris, Weymouth
John Harrison, Poc

not appeal
X. s. d

) 3 6 per aun
0 0 per ann

60 0 0 per ann
8 0 0 per ann
25 0 0 per ann
16 0 0 per ann

20 0 0 per arm

Now, most of the annuitants are poor people, who had given
all they had and could gather together in the world to
Messrs. Knowles, Hole, and Co.,' in the full belief that they

e per eetita

as I 1€

ch their prospectus

N of th

iding at Hythe,
le came to London and opened a shi°, but failed in several
ittempts to establish himself. About twelve years he kept
in Italian warehouse in the Edgeware-road, and-at last joined
Knowles in the West Middle Sex. The father of Knowles was
a servant in the brewery at H ythe, and his mother was a wash-
erwoman. When young the manager Knowles was a footboy.
He afterwards became a footman in London, and about
twelve years ago he was usher at an academy in the neigh-
bourhood of Chelsea, and, as will presently appear, he cut a
figure as an insolvent and a bankrupt before he started upon
the speculation which so completely answered his purpose,
and has caused such calamity. I perceive in the Worcester
Journal an account of an inquest held upon a poor fellow
named Thomas Higgs, whose death by his own hands were
accounted for by the death of his wife, and the loss of £lOO
which he sustained in the West Middlesex Assurance Com-

Barrett, the governor of Whitecross-street prison,
omas Knowles, the managing director of the
West Middlesex Assurance Company, was
t prison on the 18th of April, 1829, at the
intent for £4O. He was discharged under
in the following August, but did not leave
_a until the 2d of November, 1829, which made the
_ his imprisonment upwards of six months. Knowles,
. ho had been the steward of one of the wards, asked to see
lirn (Mr. Barrett) on the day of his final discharge, and,
with tears in his eyes, requested the loan of some money to
redeem a suit of clothes which were in pledge, and without
vhich he was ashamed to return home. The sum of £4 9s.
was accordingly lent to him, and though the most solemn

1 that T

Independent and

;iven that ti

oney should be most grate-
as never repaid, though repeated

it appears from a search which was yesterday made at the
Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, where Thomas

Knowles's last schedule was inspected, in which he is de-
cribed as of No. 2, Lion-terrace, Edgeward-road, out of
hat he bad taken the benefit of the insolvent act
, in 1819, and in 1829, and that be was a bankrupt
d obtained his certificate in 1826.

business, tr
twice—viz.,
in 1825, an(

—And now he is possessed of an anoriuous
rstattd that he and Hole have houses in

Sir P. Lauri
fortune. lun
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