Talk:Great Gold Robbery/Archive 1
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Who was Jeremy Forsyth?
Does anyone know who Jeremy Forsyth was? He is only mentioned once in the article, as "William Pierce, Jeremy Forsyth and James Burgess were arrested in London in November 1856." but is not mentioned anywhere else in the article; a quick Google search turned up very little. The four main culprits were listed in the article as William Pierce, James Burgess, Edward Agar, and William Tester, with mention of Fanny Kay, but no mention of who Jeremy Forsyth was, what his role was in the events, or what happened to him in the end. 41.138.236.23 (talk) 09:17, 7 July 2013 (UTC)Adam M
Today's worth
Assuming Britain still used the gold standard of 113 grains to the pound in 1855, the quantity of gold stolen would today only be worth £1.8m, from what I can calculate. Obviously there is a difference in relevance between the GDP adjusted value and this value, but surely both can be mentioned? LaFoiblesse 2009-01-24 21h32 (GMT)
- I've changed the part to
- about £{{formatprice|{{inflation|UK|12000|1855|r=-4}}}} in present day terms
- which comes out as
- about £1.42 million in present day terms
- And the figure will be updated automagically.Gabbe (talk) 14:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)