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Gresham

American  
[gresh-uhm] / ˈgrɛʃ əm /

noun

  1. Sir Thomas, 1519?–79, English merchant and financier.

  2. a town in NW Oregon.


Gresham British  
/ ˈɡrɛʃəm /

noun

  1. Sir Thomas. ?1519–79, English financier, who founded the Royal Exchange in London (1568)

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“I’m not surprised by this kind of mess,” says Kim Kamin, chief wealth strategist at Gresham Partners, an investment-advisory firm in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Sam Gresham had a three-run home run for Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

"It's not a threshold beyond which climate change will spin out of control," says Prof Myles Allen of the University of Oxford and Gresham College, and a lead author of the UN's landmark 2018 report.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

Bull Run provides drinking water to one-fifth of Oregon’s population, including residents of Portland, Gresham and other jurisdictions.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

In lectures given at Gresham College around this time, but not published until after his death, Hooke also specifically recognized that this implied major transformations in the surface of the Earth.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin