LLOYD'S

YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY

BY

HENRY M GREY

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ILLUSTRATED BY

W. D. ALMOND

LONDON

JOHN HADDON & CO

MDCCCXCIII

PREFACE

HE present sketch of one of the most in

THE

teresting and important commercial bodies in existence originally appeared, in skeleton, in the Illustrated London News. The numbers in which the article was published are now out of print, and in reproducing it in this more permanent form, I have added a quantity of detail which the limits of an article compel one to omit. I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to the proprietors of that journal for their kindness and courtesy, in granting me permission to use the original letterpress and blocks. My thanks are also due to those friends who have assisted me from the store of their personal reminiscences. H. M. G.

CHELSEA, April, 1893.