Colonial Despatches

Coleman, Turquand, Youngs & Co. was a London based accounting firm formed in 1857.1 According to historian Edgar Jones, James Edward Coleman, one of the firm's partners, had established a considerable reputation as a City accountant by the late 1840s and was often called by the Bank of England to investigate the solvency of suspect firms, including Trueman & Cook, colonial brokers.2 Following Coleman's death on 6 November 1868, the firm was renamed Turquand, Youngs & Co.3

• 1. Edgar Jones, Accountancy and the British Economy, 1840-1980 […] (London, B. T. Batsford, 1981), 34. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t20d2fm8j
• 2. Ibid., 35.
• 3. Ibid., 42; Monetary and Mercantile Affairs, Standard (London, England), 9 November 1868, 2; Deaths, Daily News (London, England), 9 November 1868, 7.