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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Buckmaster & Moore a London stockbroker established in 1895 and acquired by Credit Suisse Group in 1987.Charles Armytage-Moore and Walter Buckmaster were founding partners of the London firm of stockbrokers. They had met at Repton School, and both excelled as sportsmen. Buckmaster whilst at Trinity College Cambridge became Captain of the polo team. He developed into one of the country’s leading players, taking part in the 1900 Olympic Games, and a member of the winning team in the International Polo Cup, in 1902. Moore had joined the Marylebone Cricket Club and played against Hertfordshire in 1904.As stockbrokers they had developed a good private client business, and were very well connected. They had London offices at 64 Cornhill, EC3 and later 52, Bishopsgate, EC2A. Their Perfined Contract Revenue Stamp identity mark was B&M.One of their partners, Oswald Toynbee ‘foxy’ Falk (1879–1972), had attended Rugby School, then Balliol College Oxford (as an exhibitioner), where his uncle the social philosopher and historian, Arnold Toynbee, once taught. Joining the firm after leaving the Treasury, he began to develop a new view on economics. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) one of the firm’s clients (also Burser of King's College Cambridge), joined with Falk to form a syndicate to speculate in currency movements. Keynes lost his fortune in 1920 with money borrowed from both his father and Falk. OT Falk eventually became a Senior Partner. He went on to write many financial papers and books which are studied today in Business Schools. Another partner, Maurice Bonham Carter (1880–1960) was also a Balliol graduate, and sportsman. In addition, he served as the Principal Private Secretary to the politician H. H. Asquith and became a leading figure in the Liberal Party (UK).At one time in the late 1920s the firm employed the young Francis Pakenham, later Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, as well as the young Oxford mathematician J. H. C. Whitehead. Both of which, for different reasons decided the City was not the life for them.Buckmaster lived at Moreton Manor, Moreton Morrell and was Master of the Warwickshire Foxhounds. He died on 30 October 1942 at Warwick. Moore lived at Winterfold House in Surrey and died in 1960. The firm was eventually taken over by Credit Suisse Group in 1987. Buckmaster & Moore was renamed and reorganised into broking and fund management operations. The company was dissolved in November 1996."@en }

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