biography
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| lived:
| (1795–1869)
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| biography:
| Merchant, financier, and philanthropist, born in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA. He became a partner in a Baltimore dry-goods store in 1815, then established himself in London in 1837 as a merchant and banker, raising loans for US causes. In his lifetime he gave away a fortune for philanthropic purposes. He fitted out Kane's Arctic expedition to search for Franklin, and founded and endowed the Peabody Institutes in Baltimore and Peabody, and the Peabody Museums at Yale and Harvard. He also set up the Peabody Education Fund, and built working men's tenements in London. |
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