Miss Sarah Whitehead, the Bank Nun. Legendary figure who haunted the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street accusing it of destroying her brother, Paul Whitehead, a financial forger executed in 1812. Portrait of her in mourning garb. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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