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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

“Should I send it to your home where your wife will throw it out or to the office where you will put it by your merchant banker book that you never read either?”

From Salon • May 22, 2013

Here is a retired merchant, banker, doctor, or lawyer, who has bought a spacious and naturally fertile but worn-out, run-down farm, on which he proposes to spend the remainder of his days.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace