DLA096-0167  Transcription

‘Company Meetings. Union Discount Company of London’, The Times

COMPANY MEETINGS

UNION DISCOUNT COMPANY OF LONDON.

SATISFACTORY RESULTS.

BRITISH FINANCIAL STABILITY

PROSPECTS OF RETURN TO GOLD STANDARD

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PRESENTATION PORTRAIT OF MR. WILLIAM BRAND.

There is one other matter of a more personal nature on which I should like to say a word. Our senior colleague, Mr. William Brand, will this year complete his 40th year as a director of the Union Discount Company. His co-directors thought that his long connexion with the company ought in some way to be recognized, and they accordingly invited him to sit for his portrait. Mr. de Laszlo has painted an excellent likeness [2898], which was presented to Mr. Brand, and a replica now adorns our boardroom. I feel sure you will agree that it is fitting we should have on our walls a permanent record of one who was mainly instrumental in founding the company. We have already, as you know, a portrait of Mr. Nugent, who for so many years guided its destinies. Future generations will, I am confident, gaze at these pictures with unfailing interest and admiration for the two men who built up this company on such solid and enduring foundations.

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MD

09/03/2008