A charter of incorporation was granted to " New Royal African Company" on 27 Sept 1672 by Charles II, superseding the "Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa", chartered on 10 January 1663. The following list of officers and shareholders ("subscribers") is taken from the charter of incorporation.

Officers

* James Duke of York (later King James II) * Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury * John Buckworth * Sir John Banks * John Bence, Esq. * William Earl of Craven * Jarvis Cartwright *

Samuel Dashwood Sir Samuel Dashwood JP ( – 12 August 1705) was an English merchant and Tory politician. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1702. Early life The son of Francis Dashwood, a London merchant, by his wife Alice Sleigh, he was a brother of Sir Francis ...

* Sir Richard Ford * Thomas Farrington * Capt. Ferdinando Gorges * Edward Hopegood * John Jeffreys * Sir Andrew King * Charles Modyford, Esq. * Samuel Moyer * Peter Proby * Gabriel Roberts * Sir John Shaw * Benjamin Skutt * Sir Robert Vyner * Thomas Vernon * Nicholas Warren * Richard Young

Founding Shareholders

''(Note: "

shareholder A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of a corporation is an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal own ...

" is a relatively modern term. At the time of the charter, shareholders were called "subscribers".)'' * James Duke of York (later King James II) *

Prince Rupert Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalr ...

* Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury * Henry Earl of Arlington * Col. William Ashburnham * Alderman Robert Ask * John Ashby * John Ayres * Thomas Aldworth * Russell Alsop * Richard Alic * Thomas Andrewes * Duke of Buckingham * John Earl of Bath * George Lord Berkley of Berkley * Sir John Banks * Sir Thomas Blodworth * John Ball * John Bence, Esq. * Richard Booth * John Buckworth * James Burkin * John Bull * Mrs. Dorcas Birkhead * Edmond Bostock * Richard Beckford * Anthony Barnardiston * Joas Bateman * Edward Bouvery * Man Browne * John Beare * Richard Boys * John Bowerman * William Bowman * John Bowles * Thos. Lord Clifford * William Earl of Craven * Sir George Carteret * Sir William Coventry * Sir Anthony Craven * Sir Robert Cotton * Sir Peter Colleton * Sir Nicholas Crispe * Sir Francis Chaplin * Sir Robert Clayton * Mrs. Dorothy Colvill * Capt. George Cock * Benjamin Coles * John Crispe, Esq. * Thomas Crispe * Nicholas Cook * Jarvis Cartwright * John Culling * Josia Childe * Thomas Childe * Nicholas Carter * Benjamin Cole * John Cooke * Sir Jonathan Dawes * George Dashwood, Esq. * Alderman Francis Dashwood * William Dashwood *

* George Day * Thomas Duck * Humphrey Edwin * Samuel Everard * Sir Richard Ford * Sir Philip Frowd * Alderman Daniel Forth * John Fenn * Thomas Farington * George Frohock * John Fitch * Moses Goodyer * Capt. Ferdinando Gorges * Henry Griffith * William Goulston * John Gardner * Philip Grave * Willaim Galway * Robt. Jeffreys * John Gourney * Francis Lord Hawley * James Hoare (senior) * Edward Hopegood * William Hodges * John Hill * John Harbin * Ralph Hodgkins * Thomas Heatley * Richard Holder * Richard Hawkins * George Hadley * Rowland Hill * James Hoare (junior) * Henry Johnson * John Jeffreys * John Jurin * Peter Joy * Thomas Johnson * Marke Jarvis * Sir Andrew King * George Keats * Henry Kempe * Sir Charles Littleton * Sir John Lowther * Christopher Lowther * Thomas Lewis * John Lindsey * Simon Lewis * John Letten * Jacob Lucy * William Levell * Ralph Lee * Henry Lascee *

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

* Charles Modyford * Richard Middleton * Marke Mortimer * John Middleton * Robert Morris * Daniel Mercer * Humphrey Morrice * John Morrice * Thomas Murthwaite * Samuel Moyer * Ralph Marshall * John Meade * John Markland * John Morgan * Robert Monteth * Wm. Metcalfe * Thomas Neales * Benjamin Newland * Thomas Nicholls * Richard Nicol * Mrs. Delicia Nelson * William Lord Powis * Sr. Thomas Player * Lawrence du Puy * Charles Porter * Thomas Povey * John Portman * Peter Proby * Daniel Pennington * Peter Paravicini * Sir John Robinson * Dame Priscilla Rider * Tobias Rustal * William Rosse of Rosse Island * Thomas Rider * William Rider * William Roberts * Robert Ryves * Gabriel Roberts * Henry Richards * Edward Rudge * Godfrey Richards * Charles Ryves * Sir John Shaw * Col. John Searle * Sir John Smith * Benjamin Skutt * Joseph Skutt * William Salmon * Samuel Sambrooke * Peter Short * Robert Stevenson * William Stevens * John Short * Thomas Short * John Sweeting * Simon Smith * John Skepper * Thomas Stevens * Nathaniel Symons * Edmond Sherman * ____ Shermer * Sir John Talbott * Henry Tulce * George Toriano * Samuel Terrell * Paul Tatnell * Sir Robert Vyner * Thomas Vernon * William Vannam * Sir George Waterman * Sir Thomas Wolstenholme * Sir William Warren * Brome Whorwood * Sir Joseph Williamson * Thomas Winter * Edward Willoughby * William Walker * Nicholas Warren * William Warren * Arnold White * John Winder * Nicholas Wilde * Thomas Westerne * Richard Young * John Young

References

{{Authority control British colonisation in Africa

Officers

Founding Shareholders

See also

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