During the afternoon the prince visited specialist fishing rod manufacturer Harrison Rods in Liverpool and ATG Access, a security company in Haydock.

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The outdoors and the markets came together for Bacon through one of his first jobs, as a captain on a fishing boat owned by a man named Walter Frank, a stock specialist on the New York Stock Exchange.

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At age 20, he spent the summer working on the fishing boat of NYSE board member Walter Frank, which later led to a job at Frank's specialist firm.

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