UCL

James Hyde

Firm Details

People & Investments (2)

 Other partner
George Hyde
 Investment in Firm
James Hyde

Firm Evolutions (4)

1836 →
James Hyde, agent for Honduras 2 Great St Helens [P.O.]
1840 →
James Hyde, agent for Honduras 2 Great St Helens [P.O.]
1850 →
Hyde, Hodge & Co. 2 Great St Helens [P.O.]
1863 →
Hyde, Hodge & Co. 2 Great St Helens [P.O.]

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  

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.