Publisher's Synopsis
A principled, enterprising Victorian, George had the vision, ambition, wealth-creating skills, good sense and good luck, to earn a fortune, investing heavily in their home region near Okehampton in Devon. The story includes life in pre-abolition Jamaica; the stockmarket railway mania; London chess championships; holidays in Britain and on the Rhine; George's political campaigns as a Free-Trader; home-building in Kent and Devon - Winsford Tower and its garden; Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital commissioned by Molly - now Landmark Trust; Molly's amazing will including the bequest of the George Webb Medley Economics scholarships at Oxford, benefitting Harold Wilson and many famous economists.
