abstract:Peter Williamson (1730 - 19 January 1799), aka "Indian Peter", was a Scottish memoirist who was part-showman, part-entrepreneur and inventor. Born in a croft in Aberdeenshire, he was forcibly taken to North America at an early age, but succeeded in returning to Britain where he eventually became a well-known character in 18th century Edinburgh.
PeterWilliamson, of the JudgeBusinessSchool at the University of Cambridge, regards emergingmarkets as repositories of “value-for-money strategies for recessionarytimes”.
"If we were enjoying growth and prices were rising, we wouldn't be having this debate, " says ING analyst PeterWilliamson in Singapore, who follows the stocks of both exchanges.
Four of the captives - Britons Margaret Whitehouse, 52, a teacher from Hampshire, Ruth Williamson, 34, an NHS employee from Edinburgh, university lecturer Peter Rowe, 60, from Durham, and Australian Andrew Thirsk - were killed after Yemeni authorities tried to rescue them.