Harman and Co.

Founder Jonathan Gurnell had left a quaker farming background in Westmorland to try is fortune in London.^[8] By his mid twenties he was established as a Portuguese merchant.^[8] William Penn and other leading Quakers had attended his marriage in 1711 to Grizzle Wilmer of a family highest Quaker and earlier Puritan credentials.^[8] This marriage brought Jonathan Grendel three sons and three daughters.^[8] Hanna, one of his daughters married Jeremiah Harman in 1732, she later died young in 1741.^[8]

The Harmans and Hoards were descended from military officers who had served in Ireland before the families became Quaker.^[8]

After the death of Jonathan Gurnell and two of his sons, in the early 1750's the firm was reorganized as a partnership of his remaining son, Thomas Gurnell and is son-in-law Samuel Hoare.^[8] Soon after in 1762 the grandson John harman would join the partnership.^[8]

When Samuel Hoare retired in 1774 his place in the firm was replaced with his son, Jonathan Hoare, who was considered to be a disappointment as a merchant.^[8] Jonathan moved into "fast society" in a rather "un-Quakerly" fashion, becoming a close friend of the Price of Wales.^[8] This left more and more of the firm to be run by his cousin John Harman.^[8]

After the deaths Thomas Gurnell and Samuel Hoare Sr. The Harmans eased Jonathan Hoare out of the firm, which then became Harman & Co.^[8] Jonathan's other business ventures were also unsuccessful and he was eventually dependant on his brother Samual Hoare Jr.^[8]

After the death of John Harman in 1817,^[9] his son Jeremiah Harman would then become the sole principle partner until his death in 1846,^[3] at which time Harman and Co. would shortly after shut its doors in the hands of the two remaining patterns: Edward Harman and Henry Harman.^[4]

• Jonathan Gurnell & Co., The firm was started by Jonathan Gurnell and was named after him for many years.
• Gurnell and Hoare c. 1750 - c. 1754^[10] at Frederick Place in Old Jewry, London. Samuel Hoare Sr (1716–1796), son-in-law, was involved in the company from the beginning.^[11] When his grandson John Harman joined the firm, the name was changed to Gurnell, Hoare, and Harman.
• Gurnell, Hoare, Harman & Co. (Sometimes Gurnell, Hoare, and Harman or Gurnell, Hoare & Co) c.1754^[12] - c. 1783^[13] at Frederick Place in Old Jewry, London.
• Harman, Hoare, and Co. c.1786^[14] - c.1792^[15] at Frederick Place in Old Jewry, London
• Harman and Co. c.1804^[16]-1846 at Adam's Court of Old Broad Street, London. John's son Jeremiah Harman took over as a principal partner. He was a well-known banker, from 1816-1818 Governor of the Bank of England,^[3] and remained a partner of the firm until his death in 1844.