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Gresham

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Gresh·am  (grshm)
A city of northwest Oregon, a mainly residential suburb of Portland. Population: 97,100.
Gresham, Sir Thomas 1519-1579.
English financier. A founder of the Royal Exchange, he is traditionally credited with Gresham's law.
Gresham [ˈgrɛʃəm]
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(Biographies / Gresham, Sir Thomas (?1519-1579) M, English, BUSINESS: financier) Sir Thomas. ?1519-79, English financier, who founded the Royal Exchange in London (1568)
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Noun1.GreshamGresham - English financier (1519-1579)        
Sir Thomas Gresham


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I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Gresham was a very good man and a very religious man, but he told too many funny stories and made the people laugh in church; he was undignified, and you must have some dignity about a minister, mustn't you, Matthew?
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
My father, therefore, began now to return remonstrances instead of money to my demands, which brought my affairs perhaps a little sooner to a crisis; but had he remitted me his whole income, you will imagine it could have sufficed a very short time to support one who kept pace with the expenses of Sir George Gresham.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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