Petition Put Walter Bagehot on a banknote

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Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) is a leading writer on financial and banking issues, still influential and relevant today's banking & financial crises, cited by Robert Peston and Mervyn King among many others. Inventor of the Treasury Bill and praised on his death in a Chancellor's Budget speech. Ministers should urge Bank of England to mark his legacy by putting him on a banknote, perhaps around 2026, the bicentenary of his birth.

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Date closed 2 May 2014
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