Tag: Jabez Spencer Balfour

• Downfall of a Victorian Fraudster

  Jabez, pictured on the front cover, wasdescribed by contemporaries as being short  and stout with spindly legs. Jabez Spencer Balfour was a Victorian businessman and MP who had some very creative accounting methods. When his fraud was discovered and his massive business empire collapsed, he ran away to Argentina with a young lady who was not…

  chrisharding53

  October 8, 2012

  David McKie, financial fraud, Jabez Spencer Balfour, Jabez the Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue, swindler, Victorian