James Hyde

Firm Investment

James Hyde

Honduras merchant

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Firm Notes

  1. Hyde, Hodge & Co. Great St Helens dissolved 1838 as it concerned George Hyde; James Hyde, James Bartlett Hyde & John Hodge continue

  2. John Hodge and James Bartlett Hyde, surviving partners of James Hyde & Co., of Belize, British Honduras merchants and mahogany cutters; late firm of James Hyde & Co. 1861.

  3. John Hodge of Belize, James Bartlett Hyde of No. 2 Great st Helens, surviving co-partners of the firm of James Hyde & Co. Trading at Belize aforesaid.

  4. Lineage asserted between firm established by James Hyde and James Bartlett 'two of the oldest settler families' and John Hodge a London merchant, bought out by British Honduras Company in 1859 which was in turn renamed the Belize Estate and Produce Co. ('B.E.C.) in 1875  

Firm Sources

  1. London Gazette 19639 24/7/1838 p. 9

  2. London Gazette 22378 20/4/1860 p. 27; London Gazette 22512 21/5/1861 p. 2182.

  3. London Gazette 23099 20/4/1866 p. 34

  4. http://www.belizenet.com/history/toc.html Chapter 7 accessed 2/1/2011.