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2 unusual facts about George Chinnery


George Chinnery

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation can claim to have the outstanding corporate collection of Chinnery's works.

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His father was an exponent of the Gurney system of shorthand; his elder brother William Chinnery owned what is now Gilwell Park in Essex, before he was discovered to have committed large-scale fraud, and fled to Sweden.



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