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Banking.- Mr. Chamber's Statement of Facts, respecting his Banking concern, single sheet, folds, light dust-soiling, W. Glindon, [c.1825] § [Extract of an amendment to the Bankruptcy Bill and a plea by the Chambers family], single sheet, signed verso at foot by two members of the Chambers family, folds, [c.1825]; and a broadside advertising a benefit concert held by Miss Mary Radcliff Chambers, v.s. (3) ⁂ Three rare survivals relating to the bankruptcy of the bank Chambers and Sons in 1824, and the subsequent distress of Abraham Henry Chambers, the senior member of the family. The family appealed to Parliament for an amendment to the Bankruptcy Act to exclude debtors who were over 70 from imprisonment. Mary Chambers, known as 'The Banker's Daughter' became the sole provider for the family and held a benefit concert with the support of her aristocratic peers.