Samuel Enderby (entrepreneur, 1756)

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Samuel Enderby (* 1756 in London England ; † 1829 ibid.) Was a British entrepreneur and trader. He was the son of Samuel Enderby (1719–1797), founder of the London-based whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons .

Life

Little is known about Samuel Enderby's life, as well as when Enderby joined his father's company, Samuel Enderby & Sons . With the death of his father in 1797 at the latest, he took over ownership and responsibility for one of the largest British whaling companies of his time.

In order to develop further sources of income, Enderby applied to carry out prisoner transports to Australia . The British government refused. But when Philip Gidley King took office as governor of New South Wales in 1800, Enderby, as King's friend , was given permission to transport goods to the colony in Australia. King also stood by his side in matters of whaling rights. Under Enderby's leadership, whaling has expanded into the entire southern Pacific , into Japanese waters and into the Indian Ocean off the coasts of Mozambique and the Seychelles . In 1820, Enderby publicly advocated the annexation of New Zealand in order to better control the whalers and traders on New Zealand's coasts. With his death in 1829, Samuel Enderby & Sons passed into the responsibility of his three sons, Charles , Henry and George .

In Samuel Enderby's time, the Auckland Islands were discovered by Captain Abraham Bristow . Bristow named one of the islands Enderby Island in honor of his chief .

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SURNAME Enderby, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Second generation British entrepreneur, trader and owner of the whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons
DATE OF BIRTH 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1829
Place of death London