UCL

John Nesbitt I

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Arnold and John Nesbitt, later Nesbitt, Stewart & Nesbitt
Name partner

West India and General Merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)

No notes

Firm Notes

  1. Continuation of the business of Arnold Nesbitt, the uncle of John Nesbitt the elder, and failing in 1802. After the bankruptcy, John Nesbitt the younger re-established himself as a merchant.

Firm Sources

  1. London Gazette 15544 25/12 1802 p. 1382; https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/nesbitt-john-1745-1817 is possibly mistaken in its assertion that John Nesbitt the elder also re-entered business after 1802.