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The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol. The society can be traced back to a 13th-century guild which went on to fund the 15th-century voyage of John Cabot to Canada. [1] In 1552, it gained a monopoly on sea trading from Bristol from its first royal charter.
Cary became a merchant in 1672 and began his career dealing in goods and raw materials such as Caribbean sugar and Madeira wines. [2] His merchant tradings led him to sail ships across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. [1] By 1677, Cary joined the Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers and was promoted to become a warden in 1683. [2]
It includes guilds of merchants and other trades, both those relating to specific trades, and the general guilds merchant in Glasgow and Preston. No religious guilds survive, and the guilds of freemen in some towns and cities are not listed. Almost all guilds were founded by the end of the 17th century, although some went out of existence and ...
Isaac Hobhouse (1685 – 1763) was an English slave trader, merchant, and member of the Society of Merchant Venturers. [1] Based in Bristol, he was at the centre of money, trade, and credit and acquired much of his fortune through the trade and exploitation of African slaves in the 18th century.
Earle became a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol in 1663. In 1668, he became a common councilman of Bristol until 1684. He was Warden of the Merchant Venturers in 1670, Sheriff of Bristol for the year 1671 to 1672, and Master of the Merchant Venturers for the year 1673 to 1774. In 1676 he became a JP for Wiltshire.
It used to be accompanied by the Merchants Hall but this was destroyed in the Bristol Blitz of World War II. [6] In 2014 a long lease for the almshouses was signed for £620,000. [7] The plaque on the wall is a poem: "Freed from all storms the tempest and the rage Of billows, here we spend our age. Our weather beaten vessels here repair
The warehouse building was one of a complex of approximately 30 buildings constructed by the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation at Harriman Yard during World War I. In 1925, it was acquired by the Manhattan Soap Company, which was acquired by the Purex Corporation in 1956. It was later used as a manufacturing facility for Dial soap until 2000. [2]
William Swymmer was an English merchant and slave trader. In 1667, he became a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers. [1] He was an alderman in Bristol, and then Sheriff in 1679. [2] Swymmer may have inherited a share in a sugar plantation in Barbados from his father.