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William Jardine and James Matheson. Jardine, Matheson & Co., later Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., forerunner of today's Jardine Matheson Holdings, was a Far Eastern company founded in 1832 by Scotsmen William Jardine and James Matheson as senior partners.
Joseph Jardine (c. 1822 - 1861) was a taipan of the Jardine Matheson & Co. and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Joseph was the nephew of Dr. William Jardine, founder of the Jardine Matheson & Co., and younger brother of David Jardine. He followed the family tradition by going to China in 1843 and being given a partnership in ...
William Jardine and James Matheson, the firm's founders 1846 view of Jardine's original building from Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.. The firm of Jardine, Matheson & Company emerged in 1832 from an evolving process of partnership changes in the trading business Cox & Reid, a partnership established in 1782 between John Cox and John Reid, the latter having been agent of the Austrian trading company ...
Hugh was the nephew of James Matheson. In 1843 his uncle had invited him to join Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, but he declined due to moral scruples about that firm's involvement in the opium trade. Instead he had joined Magniac-Jardine, Jardine Matheson's London correspondents. [4]
Charles Wedderburn Dickson (23 February 1863 – 1934) was the director of Jardine Matheson & Co. and member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Dickson was born 23 February 1863 to W. Dickson and Christina Keswick. His grandfather was William Keswick, and his uncle was Henry Keswick. Tony and John Keswick were his ...
In 1865 he became head of Jardine, Matheson and Co., one of the largest Far East trading houses based in Hong Kong. [1] At the general election in July 1865, Jardine was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashburton in Devon [2] where his uncle William Jardine had been an earlier MP.
The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands.His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, Jardine's niece and daughter of Jean, and entered the Jardine business.
On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson & Co., a partnership between Jardine and Matheson as senior partners, and Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name 'Ewo' (怡和) pronounced "Yee-Wo" and ...