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A list of notable members of the Society of Merchant Venturers in Bristol, UK. Pages in category "Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Records of the Society of Merchant Venturers including foundation and membership, administrative, financial, charities, education, estates management, trade, associated clubs and societies, the Seamen's Hospital Fund, and various name indexes are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. SMV) (online catalogue) as well as further papers and correspondence related to the Society of Merchant Venturers ...
The merchant adventurers of these towns were separate but affiliated bodies. The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol was a separate group of investors, chartered by Edward VI in 1552. Under Henry VII, the merchants who were not of London complained about restraint of trade.
British East India Company (7 C, 93 P) British South Africa Company (3 C, 23 P) C. ... Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers (41 P) Muscovy Company (1 C, 6 P) R.
This is a list of guilds in the United Kingdom. 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 ...
Company of Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle; Company of Merchant Adventurers of Exeter; Company of Merchant Adventurers of York who, uniquely still own and use their original timber-framed Guildhall completed by 1368, the Merchant Adventurers' Hall; The Bristol equivalent is the Society of Merchant Venturers, now a charitable organisation
1407 Company of Merchant Adventurers of London; 1552 Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers; 1553 Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands; 1555 Muscovy Company; 1577 Spanish Company; 1579 Eastland Company; 1581 Turkey Company; 1583 Venice Company; 1585 Barbary Company; 1592 Levant Company [note 3] 1600 East India Company [note 4] 1606 ...
In 1835, Richard King became a Councillor for Redcliffe and in 1845, he was Mayor of Bristol, his great-grandfather, John King was a previous mayor. King's chief interest was in the docks of Bristol, he led a campaign to enable the Bristol council to take over operations of the docks from the Merchant Venturers and in 1848, he became the chairman of the docks committee after the council's ...