Jabez Balfour as Liberal candidate in Croydon at the general election but lost to the Conservatives. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Walworth in 1886. In 1880 he was appointed chairman of the Northampton Street Tramways. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Sir John Pender, Balfour founded the investment underwriting firm the "Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited" in December 1887. In 1892, he was at the centre of a scandal over the failure of a series of companies which he set up and controlled, starting with the London and General Bank and culminating in the Liberator Building
Edward Lawrence Levy (fraudster) household effects were badly in need of refurbishment. Levy was sentenced to a further five years' penal servitude. At the end of his life, he had sunk to lending small sums of just a few pounds, preying on the young and naive, and receiving stolen goods of low value which he needed because of his own reduced circumstances. He died in Wormwood Scrubs just five months later, on 20 October 1892, leaving £275. Edward Lawrence Levy (fraudster) Edward Lawrence Levy ( – 20 October 1892) was a British solicitor convicted of forgery, fraud and perjury. Along with two of his