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Alexander Fordyce

For the British naval officer and politician, see Alexander Fordyce (politician).

Print of Alexander Fordyce, dressed as the Macaroni Gambler with puns on Fordyce's last name (Four-Dice).[1]
Balcarres mansion in the trees – geograph.org.uk – 1465362

Alexander Fordyce (7 August 1729[2] – 8 September 1789) was a Scottish banker, centrally involved in the bank run on Neale, James, Fordyce and Down which led to the credit crisis of 1772. He fled abroad and was declared bankrupt, but in time he used the profits from other investments to cover the losses.[3]

  1. ^ Gambling on Empire: Colonial India and the Rhetoric of "Speculation" in British Literature and Culture, c. 1769–1830 by John C. Leffel
  2. ^ Family record of the name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire, p. 93
  3. ^ "Alexander Fordyce – the Macaroni Gambler | James Boswell .info".
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