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List Of Members Of The African Company Of Merchants
The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made for interested citizens to join the corporation in three cities: at foundation there were 135 members in London,157 in Bristol and 101 in Liverpool, which nevertheless had the most extensive participation in slave trade. Liverpool members Founding members The following list of 101 names was published on 24 June 1752. Several were MPs for Liverpool at some stage in their lives. * John Armitage * John Atherton * John Ashton * John Backhouse * Thomas Ball * William Benson * Joseph Bird * John Blackburn * Bryan Blundell * Jonathan Blundell * Richard Blundell * William Blundell * John Bostock * George Bradley * Edward Bridge * George Brooks * Joseph Brooks * Jonathan Brooks * William Bulkeley * George Campbell * Thomas Chalmer * Robert Clay * John Clayton * George Clews * Charles Craven * John Crompton * James Crosbie * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Company Of Merchants
The African Company of Merchants or Company of Merchants Trading to Africa was a British chartered company operating from 1752 to 1821 in the Gold Coast area of modern Ghana, engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. Background The company was established by the African Company Act 1750, and in 1752 replaced the Royal African Company which had been established in 1660. Unlike its predecessor, the African Company of Merchants was a regulated company, not a joint stock company: Clause IV of African Company Act 1750 stated: "That it shall not be lawful for the Company, established by this Act, to trade to or from Africa in their corporate or joint Capacity, or to have any joint or transferable Stock, or to borrow, or take up, any Sum or Sums of Money, on their Common Seal". The assets of the Royal African Company were transferred to the new company and consisted primarily of nine trading posts or factories: Fort William, Fort James, Fort Sekondi, Fort Winneba, Fort Apollonia, For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gildart
Richard Gildart (1673– 25 January 1770) was an English merchant from Liverpool who was engaged in the slave trade. He was Mayor of Liverpool three times, 1714, 1731, 1736 and Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1734 to 1754. Richard was the son of James Geldart and Elizabeth Sweeting of Middleham, Yorkshire. He moved to Liverpool in the 1690s, becoming a freeman of Liverpool Corporation on November 2, 1697. About 1707 he married Ann Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson (1664-1729), a prominent Liverpool businessman involved in the tobacco trade. He was a founding member of the African Company of Merchants The African Company of Merchants or Company of Merchants Trading to Africa was a British chartered company operating from 1752 to 1821 in the Gold Coast area of modern Ghana, engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. Background The company was establ ... in 1752, and also was elected to their executive committee in 1758. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gildart, Richard 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Colonisation In Africa
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parr (gunmaker)
John Parr (died 1798) was an English gun maker, Mayor of the Borough of Liverpool in 1773. Life He was the son of John Parr of Rainford, who married in 1713 Joan Horton, daughter of Joshua Horton of Chadderton. The family were gun makers and shipowners involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1751 Parr was recruited as an agent for the Birmingham firm of Farmer & Galton, by James Farmer, partner of Samuel Galton Jr.. He took over a role selling guns on commission under John Hardman. In this business relationship with Farmer and Galton, he also took on the "battery trade", another aspect of the hinterland commerce dealing in small copper and brass items. In 1752 he was listed with Hardman as an African Company of Merchants founding member. The gun trade presented particular difficulties of long credit required by customers, and Galton chased Parr to collect payments. Up to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756, discounts for cash on guns were high. In a 1766 directory of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Parr
Edward Parr (born 26 February 1718; ?died 1799) was an English slave trader and merchant. He was involved in 51 slave voyages, operating out of the Port of Liverpool between 1750 and 1768. Parr owned a slave ship called ''Briton'', whose captain employed an African pirate called Captain Lemma Lemma to capture and enslave people with his war canoes. Parr was a member of the African Company of Merchants. Early life Parr was born in Liverpool, the son of Jonas Parr, apothecary, of Castle Street. His grandfather was also Edward Parr, of Haysom in Rainford, of a family settled there as small landowners in the 15th century, established in Liverpool as merchants and shipowners by the late 17th century. He was a first cousin of the gunmaker John Parr. Slave trade Edward Parr continued his father's business as an apothecary and general merchant in Castle Street, Liverpool. He became a slave trader with West Africa, the Caribbean and Chesapeake Bay, and reputedly became the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Okill
John Okill (c.1687 – 20 August 1773) was a pioneering and successful 18th century shipbuilder from Liverpool, England. Not much is known about his early life, though by the time he was 50 years old, he was a leading citizen of the town, having undertaken the roles of timber merchant and shipbuilder. His yard was on the south of the Salthouse Dock, Liverpool, and over the years he would build many coasting brigantines and sloops in alliance with William Marsh. By 1739 his reputation an accomplished ship builder got him the first of many commissions by the Royal Navy to build ships of the line. The first was the "Hastings", a ship of 44 guns and weighing 682 tons. He would build another eight ships between 1740 and 1758 for the navy. His shipbuilding company saw several other partners over the years: by 1758 the firm was "Okill and Rigg", and in 1768 it became "Okill & Sutton". John Okill was also a Liverpool member of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hardman (MP)
Sir John Hardman (c.1694 – 6 December 1755) was an English merchant, politician and slave trader. He was engaged in the slave trade between England, Africa and the West Indies; indeed, the Hardman family were involved in 46 slave voyages between 1729 and 1759. Biography Hardman was the second but elder surviving son of Richard Hardman of the manor of Rochdale, by his wife Elizabeth Fernyside. His brother, James Hardman (born 1697), was also involved in slave trading. The senior Hardman, erroneously confused with John, had been appointed to care for the feet of King William III, and was the son of James Hardman Esq. of Rochdale, who had fought as a cavalier in the English Civil War. The Hardmans were an old Lancastrian family of landed gentry. In 1736, Hardman purchased the manor of Allerton Hall and rebuilt it in grand, Palladian style. During this time he began a career slave trading, financing and undertaking slave voyages from West Africa to the West Indies. Hardma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Goore
Charles Goore (11 December 1701 – 13 March 1783) was an English merchant, and politician, who twice held the office of Mayor of Liverpool. Early life Charles Goore was born on 11 December 1701, to Richard Goore of Goore House near Ormskirk, Lancashire. His mother was Alice Mather, the daughter of Thomas Mather of New Hall, Shropshire and Martha Bunbury. Staniforthiana, 1760 by Frances Margery Hext His wife, Margery Halsall was the great great great niece of Humphrey Chetham, through his brother Ralph Chetham. Charles and Margery resided in a house situated in the churchyard of Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool. Mercantile activity Goore was part of a consortium of Liverpool merchants who in 1744 invested in '' Old Noll'' which they put to work as a privateer.during the War of the Austrian Succession. Political career Goore was a member of the Liverpool Corporation and was known throughout the city for being a successful shipping merchant. He was a founding m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bulkeley (merchant)
William Bulkeley was a Liverpool merchant, son of Thomas Bulkeley of Anglesey, who financed voyages for slave-trading, privateering, and the Greenland whale fishery. He was apprenticed to Foster Cunliffe, a merchant of Liverpool, in 1731. By 1750 he was prosperous enough to be one of the first pew-holders oSt Thomas's Church, Liverpool Bulkeley was part of a consortium of Liverpool merchants who in 1744 invested in '' Old Noll'' which they put to work as a privateer.during the War of the Austrian Succession. Between 1747 and 1756 he was part-owner of eleven slaving voyages. He also co-owned many other ventures, including from 1749 the ship Golden Lion, captured from the French on the last day of 1744, by HMS Port Mahon, (Hy. Aylmer Smith, commander), which was then used as a privateer.History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, with an account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812. pp. 80-83. Gomer Williams. Reprint of the 1897 edition (William Heinemann (Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Act Of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, sometimes referred to as primary legislation, are texts of law passed by the Legislature, legislative body of a jurisdiction (often a parliament or council). In most countries with a parliamentary system of government, acts of parliament begin as a Bill (law), bill, which the legislature votes on. Depending on the structure of government, this text may then be subject to assent or approval from the Executive (government), executive branch. Bills A draft act of parliament is known as a Bill (proposed law), bill. In other words, a bill is a proposed law that needs to be discussed in the parliament before it can become a law. In territories with a Westminster system, most bills that have any possibility of becoming law are introduced into parliament by the government. This will usually happen following the publication of a "white paper", setting out the issues and the way in which the proposed new law is intended to deal with them. A bill may also be introduced in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Blundell
Bryan Blundell (c. 1675–1756) was an English merchant and philanthropist who served as Mayor of Liverpool. Blundell founded The The Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital School in 1708 in conjunction with the Rector of Liverpool, the Reverend Robert Stythe, to provide an education for the city's destitute children and orphans. Life and career Maritime career Blundell first went to sea aged 12 and kept a detailed journal painting a vivid picture of the tumultuous political times and their impact on transatlantic trade. This document also contains his amateur colour drawings of ships and detailed drafts of their rigging plans, which enabled him to have vessels constructed in Virginia at a far lower cost than in England. After his early exposure to the sea, Blundell made a career as merchant. Blundell captained ''The Mulberry'', which was the first ship in the Old Dock in Liverpool in 1715. and transported a large number of English indentured workers to Virginia. Blundell was also invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool (UK Parliament Constituency)
Liverpool was a borough constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs). In 1868, this was increased to three Members of Parliament. The borough franchise was held by the freemen of the borough. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings. In 1800 there were around 3000 electors, with elections in this seat being nearly always contested. The borough returned several notable Members of Parliament including Prime Minister George Canning, William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, Banastre Tarleton, noted soldier in the American War of Independence and most notably, William Roscoe the abolitionist and Anti Slave Trade campaigner. The constituency was ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
