Richard Puller

Richard Puller (1747–1826) was a prominent English merchant banker in London.

[1] He has sometimes[2] 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 (1789–1831), his son.

He was the son of Christopher Puller (died 1789), 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;[1][2][3] 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.

[4][5][6] 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.