Ashworth, Edmund (1800–1881), cotton manufacturer and free-trade activist, was born on 17 November 1800 at Birtenshaw, Turton, near Bolton, the fifth of the eleven children of John Ashworth (1772–1855), farmer, land agent, and cotton spinner, and his wife, Isabel Thomasson (1772–1852). Edmund was a younger brother of ...
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Ashworth, Edmund (1800–1881), cotton manufacturer and free-trade activist
A. J. Gritt
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Brewster, Sir Francis (d. 1704/5), merchant and writer on trade
C. I. McGrath
Brewster, Sir Francis (d. 1704/5), merchant and writer on trade, was born to unknown parents, possibly from co. Kerry or co. Westmeath, where he later certainly owned land. He is first recorded in 1671, when he was accused of illegally exporting timber and wool to ...
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Dobbs, Arthur (1689–1765)
Maker: James Macardell
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Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765) by James Macardell (after William Hoare) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Dobbs, Arthur (1689–1765), colonial governor and writer on trade
Robert M. Calhoon
Dobbs, Arthur (1689–1765), colonial governor and writer on trade, was born at Girvan in Ayrshire on 2 April 1689, the son of Richard Dobbs, army officer and future high sheriff of Antrim, and his first wife, Mary (d. before 1711), daughter of ...
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Ellison, Thomas (1833–1904), historian and statistician of the cotton trade
D. A. Farnie
Ellison, Thomas (1833–1904), historian and statistician of the cotton trade, was born in Liverpool, possibly the son of Joseph Ellison, bookkeeper. He left school at sixteen and was apprenticed to Maurice Williams (1825–1878), who had himself just begun business as a cotton broker. ...
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Gee, Joshua (1667–1730), writer on trade and merchant
Peter Groenewegen
Gee, Joshua (1667–1730), writer on trade and merchant, was the son of John Gee (1635–1704) of Moyvoughley, co. Westmeath. His father was a Quaker, originally from Yorkshire. Nothing is known of Joshua Gee's education. By 1694 Gee was in London, where he became a master of the ...
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Hippisley, John (bap. 1729, d. 1766), writer on trade and administrator in west Africa
R. Mansell Prothero
Hippisley, John (bap. 1729, d. 1766), writer on trade and administrator in west Africa, was baptized on 21 June 1729 at St Andrew's, Holborn, London, the son of John Hippisley (1696–1748), an actor and theatre manager, and his partner, Mary Charley. Little is known of his early life and education. He played Tom Thumb in ...
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Hume, James Deacon (1774–1842), civil servant and free-trader
Henry Parris
Hume, James Deacon (1774–1842), civil servant and free-trader, was born on 28 April 1774 at Newington, Surrey, the son of James Hume, a customs official, and his wife, Elizabeth Capps. He had four sisters. Hume was educated at Westminster School and became a customs clerk in 1791. He rose steadily to reach the grade of comptroller in 1821, with a salary of ...
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Ivens, Michael William (1924–2001), free-enterprise propagandist and poet
Jim Tomlinson
Ivens, Michael William (1924–2001), free-enterprise propagandist and poet, was born at Leonora, Nicholas Lane, Laindon, Essex, on 15 March 1924, the son of Harry Guest Ivens, a boiler salesman, and his wife, Selena (Nina), née Ailion. His father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was Jewish; in later life ...
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Jacob, William (1761/2–1851), merchant and writer on the corn trade
Gordon Goodwin
revised by M. J. Mercer
Jacob, William (1761/2–1851), merchant and writer on the corn trade, was by the early 1790s well established in business as a merchant, in partnership with John Jacob, in premises in Newgate Street, London. According to Joshua Wilson he had become a 'commercial man of considerable credit...
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Keymer, John (fl. 1584–1622), vintner and writer on commerce
Anita McConnell
Keymer, John (fl. 1584–1622), vintner and writer on commerce, is first heard of as a vintner in Cambridge. In 1583 Queen Elizabeth had granted Sir Walter Ralegh the farm of wines, each retailer to pay him £1 annually for a licence, and Keymer...
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MacGregor, John (1797–1857)
Maker: unknown engraver
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John MacGregor (1797–1857) by unknown engraver, pubd 1848 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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MacGregor, John (1797–1857), civil servant and free-trader
Henry Parris
MacGregor, John (1797–1857), civil servant and free-trader, was born at Drynie, near Stornoway, the eldest son of David MacGregor and Janet Ross. He had at least two brothers. In 1803 his parents took him to Canada, where they lived in Nova Scotia before moving to ...
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Massie, Joseph (d. 1784), writer on trade and economics
R. D. Sheldon
Massie, Joseph (d. 1784), writer on trade and economics, was of unknown origins. Likewise it is not known if he married or had children. Several of his early writings exhibit an in-depth familiarity and interested concern with the West Indian sugar trade which suggests that he was a merchant or factor in this branch of business for some years. In the 1750s he began to establish a reputation as a writer, statistician, and economic theorist. During the Seven Years' War and its aftermath he was particularly active as a pamphleteer in support of, and probably in the pay of, ...
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McIntosh, Andrew Robert, Baron McIntosh of Haringey (1933–2010), market researcher and politician
Anne Corbett
McIntosh, Andrew Robert, Baron McIntosh of Haringey (1933–2010), market researcher and politician, was born on 30 April 1933 in the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, the elder of two children of Albert William McIntosh (1904–1994), then a clerk for a business consultant, and his wife, ...
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Mortimer, Thomas (1730–1810), writer on trade and finance
Christabel Osborne
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Mortimer, Thomas (1730–1810), writer on trade and finance, was born on 9 December 1730 in Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, the only son of Thomas Mortimer (1706–1741), principal secretary to Sir Joseph Jekyll, master of the rolls, and grandson of John Mortimer (1656?–1736)...
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Murray, Robert (bap. 1633, d. 1725?), financier and writer on trade
Natasha Glaisyer
Murray, Robert (bap. 1633, d. 1725
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Pegolotti, Francesco di Balducci (b. c. 1280?, d. in or after 1347), merchant and author
R. H. Britnell
Pegolotti, Francesco di Balducci (b.
c. 1280
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Prentice, Archibald (1792–1857), journalist and free-trader
Paul R. Ziegler
Prentice, Archibald (1792–1857), journalist and free-trader, was born on 17 November 1792 at Covington Mains, a farm in the Upper ward of Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was one of seven children born to the yeoman farmer Archibald Prentice and his second wife, Helen, daughter of ...
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