Richard Puller


Richard Puller was a prominent English merchant banker in London. He has sometimes been identified as the pseudonymous economic writer Piercy Ravenstone, considered a precursor of Karl Marx; but scholarly sources generally now follow the suggestion of Piero Sraffa that Ravenstone was Richard Puller the younger, his son.

Life

He was the son of Christopher Puller, also a prominent London merchant banker. His father was a director of the Bank of England, while he was a director of the South Sea Company;
Richard and Charles Puller, of 10 Broadstreet Buildings, were the London bankers of John Adams during the 1780s; Adams refers also to the firm as Conde & Puller. This was also the period of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and Richard Puller acted as an agent in a case concerning a captured Dutch ship.
In later life Puller resided at Painswick Court in Gloucestershire. He died there, on 5 December 1826.

Family

Puller married Selina Wall, daughter of Thomas Wall of Albury Park, Surrey. The following were their children: