The South Sea Company

Despite the family chudley's deep pockets and wealth, this particular family unit. Thomas and henrietta, who is called harriet, are not wealthy at all, but they are living in a very luxurious apartment on the hospital grounds because that's where papa's working. The south sea company was an investment firm that was running on the ragged edge of the black market,. Let's call it a pyramid scheme. It survived for a while by paying original investors from new investors money. And then it became unsustainable, and all of papa's investments vanished. Vanished. Ultimately, right after his daughter was born, he had to sell his military commission for some getal on