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,
Gervais de La Rue d'Agriculture de Caen", and in other periodical collections, he published separately "Essais historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs, et les Trouvères normands et anglo-normands" (3 vols., 1834), and "Recherches historiques sur la Prairie de Caen" (1837); and after his death appeared "Mémoires historiques sur le palinod de Caen" (1841), "Recherches sur la tapisserie de Bayeux" (1841), and "Nouveaux Essais historiques sur la ville de Caen" (1842). In all his writings, he displayed a strong partiality for everything Norman, and rated the Norman influence on French and English literature as of the very highest moment. Gervais de La Rue Gervais de