Samuel Enderby (entrepreneur, 1719)

Samuel Enderby (* 1719 in London England , † 1797 in London, England) was a British entrepreneur, trader, grandson of Samuel Enderby (1640-1723) and founder of the London-based whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons .

Life

Little is known about Samuel Enderby's life. His father was Daniel Enderby , at whose time, in addition to the Enderby's family business on St Paul's Wharf , two other trading companies specializing in oil and oil, Charles Buxton's and Sims' companies, had established themselves .

At a young age, Samuel learned the craft of cooper from Charles Buxton and later opened his own shop on Lower Thamse Street . After marrying Mary Buxton , daughter of his former instructor Charles Buxton , the Enderby family and Buxton merged their businesses. It was Samuel Enderby , now head of the company, who registered ships for trade with the thirteen colonies of North America in Boston and London . Transporting goods to Boston for the colonialists and bringing whale oil from American whaling to England on the way back had become a very promising business.

It is not known exactly when Enderby founded the company Samuel Enderby & Sons . The changed economic conditions were probably caused by the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773 (civil resistance to British colonial policy) and the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. The trading business collapsed, which made a reorientation necessary. Enderby could no longer hope for whale oil deals with American whalers and decided to build up his own whaling fleet and go with it to the southern Atlantic . Ten years later, the Samuel Enderby & Sons already owned 17 ships. In 1786, Enderby was the main owner of the company, applied for worldwide fishing permits and in 1789 expanded his business to include expeditions to the South Pacific . In 1790 there were 68 ships in his whaling and trading fleet. When Samuel Enderby handed over the management of his company to his son Samuel Enderby (1756–1829) is not known. He himself died in 1797.

Web links

• Messrs Enderby collection . Archives Hub - University of Manchester,accessed August 17, 2012. 
• Enderby House and Enderby Wharf, Christchurch Way, Greenwich . (PDF 1.2 MB)Royal Borough of Greenwich,accessed on August 14, 2012(English, document found at webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk, original website no longer available). 
• Allan Green : 150 Years Of Industry & Enterprise At Enderby's Wharf . FTL Design , 2004, accessed on August 14, 2012 . 
• KM Dallas : Enderby, Samuel (1756-1829) . Australian Dictionary of Biography , accessed August 14, 2012 .