De La Rue De La Rue De La Rue plc (, ) is a British banknote manufacturing, security printing of passports and tax stamps, brand authentication and paper-making company with headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. It also has a factory on the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, and other facilities at Loughton, Essex, and Bathford, Somerset. There are overseas offices in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Malta. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company was founded by Thomas de la Rue (1793–1866), who moved from Guernsey to London in 1821 and set up in business as a 'Leghorn' straw hat maker,
Warren De la Rue memoirs, entitled "Researches on Solar Physics", published by De La Rue, in conjunction with Professor Balfour Stewart and Mr B Loewy, in the "Phil. Trans." (vol. clix. pp. 1–110, and vol. clx. pp. 389–496). He took some of the very first photos of the moon, so he got a crater named after him the "De La Rue (crater)". In 1860 De La Rue took the photoheliograph to Spain for the purpose of photographing the total solar eclipse which occurred on 18 July of that year. This expedition formed the subject of the Bakerian Lecture already referred to. The photographs obtained