25 JUNE 1927, Page 33

HISTORIC FINANCE HOUSES.

A number of prominent City men attended the Royal Exchange last Monday morning when the Lord Mayor, unveiled two interesting portrait panels, " Sir Francis Baring ' and " Antony Gibbs." The panels, Sir Rowland Blades stated, completed a decorative scheme inaugurated in 1892 to in- clude portraits of notable City men and representations of great events in our national history. Lord Aldenham gave a short history of the Antony Gibbs portrait, while the Earl of Northbrook—in the unavoidable and much-regretted absence through illness of the head of the firm, Lord Revelstoke —expressed his pleasure that the founder of the House of Baring should thus be commemorated.