Christopher Chambers

London merchant and slave-trader, partner with Robert Rolleston (q.v.) and among the members of the 'Sargent Circle' in Hancock's Citizens of the World. He participated as co-investor in 12 slave voyages from Liverpool and 4 from London mainly between 1787 and 1796. He died intestate in 1803.

Minutes Wed 7 Sep 1803 'Mr Joseph Grazebrook attended on behalf of Lancellot Chambers of the City of London Esqr and made out his Claim to four Shares M6o 160, 161,164,165 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the property of Christopher Chambers last of Mincing Lane in the City of London Esqr deceased by producing Letters of Administration of the Goods, & Chattles and Credits of the said Christopher Chambers (who died Intestate) granted on the 8th July 1803 by the Perogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury unto the said Lancellot Chamber, who is entitled to the said Shares and the said Claim is hereby admitted.' https://stroudwaterhistory.org.uk/document/4630/ [accessed 15/03/2022]; European Magazine and London Review Vol. 43 Part 1 Jan-Jun. 1803 p. 238 March 2 [1803] [Death of] Christopher Chambers of Mincing Lane.