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Local News · 26 June

The £2.4 Million Scandal: How Wimbledon's Lord Crashed the World's First Financial Bubble

Wimbledon's connection to the South Sea Bubble, history's first major financial crash, centres on Sir Theodore Janssen, the French-born financier who bought Wimbledon Manor in 1717 only to lose it four years later in one of Britain's most notorious corruption scandals.

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