Henry Dunbar

The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of London - so rich that it would be quite in vain to endeavour to describe the amount of its wealth. It was something fabulous, people said. The offices were situated in a dingy and narrow thoroughfare leading out of King William Street, and were certainly no great things to look at; but the cellars below their offices - wonderful cellars, that stretched far away underneath the church of St