Sir John Pirie, 1st Baronet (1781 – 26 February 1851), was a British
shipbroker and
Lord Mayor of London. He was the largest shipbroker in London.
[Streets Named on 23 May 1837]
History of Adelaide Through Street Names, historysouthaustralia.net, updated 4 March 2005. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
In the 1830s he started to uphold
Wakefield's principles and became a founding director, and one of the largest financiers, of the
South Australian Company.
[The South Australian Company]
''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'' 18 June 1836 p. 6 He was also a director of the
New Zealand Company, and the
East India Company.
One of the
first three ships despatched in 1836 to found the new colony of
South Australia was the 105-ton two-masted
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
named
''John Pirie''.
[
Pirie was elected Sheriff of London for 1831–32 and Lord Mayor for 1841–42. He was created a baronet, of Camberwell in the County of Surrey, in 1842 on his retirement as Lord Mayor.]Camberwell
Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross.
Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This e ...
on 26 February 1851. Although he was a past director of City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Co he was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. The title died with him.[
Pirie Street in Adelaide and the city of Port Pirie were also named after him.
]
References
1781 births
1851 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Sheriffs of the City of London
19th-century lord mayors of London
19th-century English politicians
19th-century Australian politicians
Directors of the South Australian Company
Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
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