George Benjamin Peiser

He founded the Standard Bank branch in Rhodesia, in a tent he erected in Bulawayo. He was a keen photographer, and photographed the tent.

In 1986, the Lord Barber, Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank, was seated beside George Benjamin Peiser's granddaughter, Avril Von Hirschberg, neé Cowden, at a banquet for the Commonwealth Eminent Persons’ Group, for which he was the British representative, and when they began to talk about Rhodesia, he told her that in the chairman’s office in London hangs a photograph of the tent in Bulawayo where the branch of the bank began, in 1892.

GB Peiser's death notice, when he died at the age of 49 of colon cancer, noted that he had been suffering for some time, and died at "Buchanan" on Glengariff Road, Three Anchor Bay. It noted that he was retired and normally was resident in Bulawayo, which is where his probate was lodged. In later life, his widow and family lived at "Montpellier" on Monastery Road, Sea Point/Three Anchor Bay.

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Death Notice

• DEPOT KAB
• SOURCE MOOC
• TYPE LEER
• VOLUME_NO 6/9/2503
• SYSTEM 01
• REFERENCE 2107
• PART 1
• DESCRIPTION PEISER, GEORGE BENJAMIN. ESTATE PAPERS.
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• ENDING 19230000

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