Samuel Enderby (entrepreneur, 1640)
Samuel Enderby (* 1640 ; † 1723 in London , England ) was a British entrepreneur and trader based in London.
Life
Little is known about Samuel Enderby , the grandfather of Samuel Enderby (1719–1797) and founder of the London whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons . He lived with his family, the Gerber exercised crafts, in London's Bermondsay . His parents must have originally lived in Ireland , as properties in Lismore , County Waterford , which were returned to the Enderby's , were sold in 1660 . Samuel Enderby took the money and invested it in trading whale oil and trading furs from Russia . His son Daniel later continued the business on St Paul's Wharf . In addition to the family business of Enderby's , two other trading companies established themselves on St Paul's Wharf that specialized in oil and oil, Charles Buxton's company and Sims .
Web links
- Barbara Ludlow: Greenwich Industrial Story - Notes on the Enderbys . Greenwich Industrial History Society , accessed August 16, 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).
- Stewart Ash : 6th Thamse Shipbuilding Symposium - The Eponymous Enderbys . Greenwich Industrial History , August 9, 2015, accessed February 9, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enderby, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British entrepreneur and trader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1640 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1723 |
| Place of death | London |