West India merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)
Formed 1783 by John Pretor Pinney and James Tobin as Pinney & Tobin (q.v. under Tobin & Pinney).
Kenneth Morgan, ‘Pinney, John Pretor (1740–1818)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50514, accessed 30 March 2016]