shipowner and merchant

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• Daniel Cooper (convict and merchant) — Daniel Cooper (1785 1853) was a convict transported to New South Wales who became a successful merchant, financier, shipowner and shipping agent. Transported in 1815, he received a conditional pardon in 1818 and an absolute pardon in 1821. He… …   Wikipedia

• Merchant Shipping Act 1786 — The Merchant Shipping Act 1786 (26 Geo. III, c.86) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1786. The Act stemmed from a petition made to Parliament by a delegation of shipowners in 1786, concerned that recent court… …   Wikipedia

• James Burns (shipowner) — Sir James Burns, KCMG (10 February 1846 22 August 1923 at Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland), was a noted businessman, shipowner and philanthropist in Australia. In particular, he is known as the co founder of Burns Philp and Company, a shipping… …   Wikipedia

• Webb, Sidney and Beatrice — ▪ British economists Introduction in full respectively  Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner , and  Martha Beatrice Webb,  née  Potter  Respectively,   born July 13, 1859, London died Oct. 13, 1947, Liphook, Hampshire, Eng. born …   Universalium

• Pool's Island, Newfoundland and Labrador — HistoryPool s Island today is an incorporated community of Badger s Quay Valleyfield Pool s Island. Out of these three, Pool s Island was the first to have settlement. Pool s Island was named Fool s Island up until the 1850s. It was visited in… …   Wikipedia

• William Harrison (merchant navy officer) — William Harrison (1812–1860), merchant navy officer.Harrison, son of a master in the merchant service, was born at Maryport, Cumberland, in October 1812. He was bound an apprentice to Mr. Porter, a shipowner of Liverpool, and went to sea in… …   Wikipedia

• Henry Reed (merchant) — Infobox Person name = Henry Reed image size = 175px caption = birth date = 28 December 1806 birth place = Doncaster, England death date = 10 October 1880 death place = Mount Pleasant, Tasmania education = Apprentice occupation = Merchant,… …   Wikipedia

• Henry Nicholas Paint — Infobox MP honorific prefix = name = Henry Nicholas Paint honorific suffix = constituency MP = Richmond parliament = 1882 majority = predecessor = Edmund Power Flynn successor = Edmund Power Flynn term start =1882 term end =1887 birth date = 10… …   Wikipedia

• Charles Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay — This article is about the British politician. For the British art administrator, Charles David Ogilvy Barrie, see David Ogilvy Barrie. Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay KBE DL JP (1875 – 6 December 1940) was a businessman and Liberal Party …   Wikipedia

• Chalmers, Thomas — (1780 1847)    Divine, economist, and philanthropist, b. at Anstruther, Fife, s. of a shipowner and merchant, studied at St. Andrews and, entering the ministry of the Church of Scotland, was first settled in the small parish of Kilmeny, Fife, but …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• Ferdinand Brock Tupper — (1795 – 1874), was one of the leading historians of the Channel Islands.He was born in Guernsey in 1795 to parents John Elisha Tupper, Esquire (shipowner and merchant from Les Cotils and Carrefour in Guernsey) and Elizabeth Brock (1767 1847),… …   Wikipedia