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James Swanzy

Profile & Legacies Summary

1767 - 1823

Biography

Slave-trader out of Liverpool and London with 8 voyages in the TASTDB, Governor of slave-forts 'on the coast' in West Africa 1789-1799, then a merchant of Austin Friars, and connected in an as yet unknown manner with the Mount D'Or estate on St Lucia. He was bankrupt in 1819. The firm of F. and A. Swanzy, a predecessor of Unilever and active in the 'legitimate trade' post-abolition, was established by his sons from a second marriage, Francis (Frank) and Andrew.


Sources

Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire ...:By Robert Montgomery Martin (1839) p. 558 [evidence from a Committee of the House of Commons 16/06/1816]; London Gazette 17478 18 May 1819 p. 873.

Henry Swanzy, 'A trading family in the nineteenth century Gold Coast', Transactions of the Gold Coast & Togoland Historical Society, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1956), pp. 87-120.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
James; by a second marriage Francis (Frank) and Andrew

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
Not known
Mount D'Or [ St Lucia ]

Assignees of James Swanzy bankrupt claimed for the compensation for Mount D'Or on St Lucia.

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
Swanzy and Bynon
Insurance Broker  
 
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