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Turnbull, a wealthy former merchant banker with a harborside mansion in Sydney, struggled to improve his party’s popularity ratings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2018

A social liberal and multi-millionaire former merchant banker, he has struggled to appeal to conservative voters and only narrowly won a general election in 2016.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2018

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former merchant banker with a personal fortune estimated at exceeding AU$200 million, said he had told Australia Post Chairman John Stanhope “that remuneration is too high.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2017

Sajid Javid: The business secretary and former merchant banker, the son of a Pakistani-born bus driver, has shot up the ranks in recent years.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2016

After a while I came to feel a reasonable confidence in assuming that almost any prominent merchant, banker, lawyer, or politician whom I met in the towns owned a plantation in the country.

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David