423 people found
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Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist
William Hewett
Mayor of London
Olaudah Equiano
African abolitionist
William Armstrong
English corn merchant and local politician
John Hawkins
English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader
Thomas Walker
English cotton merchant and political reformer
Andrew Judde
English merchant; Lord Mayor of London
Chris Evans (presenter)
English presenter, businessman and producer
John Shakespeare
English businessman and the father of William Shakespeare
William Clark
English shoe manufacturer and retailer
Wilson Armistead
English merchant, author, and abolitionist
Francis Levett
English trader
Hector Pitchforth
English trader
Thomas Pitt
English politician
George Davenport
English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, soldier, Indian agent, and city planner
Nick Leeson
English former derivatives broker
George Case
English slave trader
Richard Champion
English merchant and porcelain manufacturer
John Carter, Sr.
English merchant who emigrated to the Virginia colony
Francis Ingram
English slave trader
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
English merchant and politician
William Hawkins
English sea captain and merchant
Edward Whalley
English merchant, soldier and judge
Edward Roper Curzon Clarkson
English-Canadian merchant in Upper Canada
Erasmus Smith
English philanthropist, merchant and landowner
William Earle
English slave trader
Thomas Pilkington
English merchant, politician and Lord Mayor of London
John Meyrick
English diplomat and merchant
Gabriel Towerson
English naval officer and agent for the East India Company
Dicky Barrett
English trader
Jack O'Newbury
English clothier
Robert Morley
English merchant and politician
William II Canynges
English merchant and shipper from Bristol
Maurice Abbot
English merchant and politician
John Davie
English merchant
Adam Hodgson
English merchant, travel writer and abolitionist
Thomas Martindale
English-born American merchant, grocer
Peter Baker
English slave trader
Sir John de Pulteney
English businessman
Frank Laskier
Merchant Navy personnel and writer