Thomas Goulton Hesleden

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Thomas Goulton Hesleden (born February 18, 1776 in Barton-upon-Humber , † November 11, 1827 in Hamburg ) was an English ship broker . Together with his business partner John Fontenay , he was one of the last merchant adventurers to be one of the most successful brokers of the time.

Life

Hesleden was born as the third son of William Hesleden . He had five brothers and three sisters. On May 16, 1799 he married Ulrica Christina Sophia Duncker , who was two years older than him and came from Schwerin . In 1802 he was mentioned for the first time in Hamburg, where he lived at the address Kleine Michaeliskirche 109 , between 1804 and 1808 at Herrengraben 217 at the address Dr. med. Dunker , lived.

During the time of the Elbe blockade , Hesleden lived with his wife in Tönning . On April 24, 1807, he took his citizenship oath there , with which he became a quasi Danish citizen and was thus largely free to move around Hamburg.

After his death on November 11, 1827, he was buried six days later in the churchyard of the English Reformed congregation in Hamburg in front of the Dammtor .

Hesleden had a son, Charles Williams , who was born on June 5, 1897.

Act

Hesleden worked as an English ship broker in Hamburg, where he was hired as a broker on June 16, 1802. As a merchant adventurer, he was able to take advantage of tariff and trade preferences and tax breaks. In 1802 he handled 36 ships in the Hanseatic city. Due to the blockade of the Elbe, which was associated with the French era in Hamburg , it was no longer possible to settle the port of Hamburg from 1803, and ships were now calling at Tönning . Hesleden, who lived in Tönning and was one of the largest taxpayers there, initially worked with correspondence brokers and in 1804 offered ten clearances from Tönning. From July 1, 1804 he cooperated with Fontenay, in whose office building on the Schaarsteinwegbrücke he operated from 1804. All advertisements, including the ships brokered by Fontenay, only ran under the name of Hesledens, who acted as a broker, while Fontenay was a shipowner and merchant.

After England declared war on Denmark in 1807, Hesleden temporarily lived in the English House on Gröningerstrasse in Hamburg, but from 1809 worked on Heligoland . There he took part on June 3, 1809 at the founding meeting of the Chamber of Commerce there. In his application for appointment as shipbrokers Hesleden wrote: "The arrogance of the enemy have driven me from Hamburg, where I've been in the last several years for the English factory." After the end of the French occupation took Hesleden together with Fontenay in June 1814. Shops from the port of Hamburg. In 1814 they handled 187 sailors, which corresponded to 22 percent of all large ships that were leaving the port at that time. By 1820 they looked after almost every fourth English ship in the Hanseatic city. Between 1822 and 1827, Hesleden and Fontenay were registered in the Hamburg address book on Admiralitätstrasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 228.
  2. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 47-48 .
  3. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 137-138 .
  4. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 47 .
  5. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 34-35 .
  6. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 49 .
  7. ↑ Mathias Eberenz, Dieter Gartmann, Harald A. Kirsten: John Fontenay - Hamburg Shipbrokers and Kaufmann - Founder of the Foundation John Fontenay's Testament . Ed .: Foundation "John Fontenay's Testament". 1st edition. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937843-24-7 , p. 66 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesleden, Thomas Goulton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English ship broker
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Barton-upon-Humber
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1827
Place of death Hamburg