William of Simpson
Johann Wilhelm Simpson (from 1840 by Simpson ; also William ) (* 1788 ; † 1858 ) was a German merchant and manor owner .
Simpson was the son of Johann Ludwig Simpson (* 1751), a merchant from Memel , a member of an old Scottish family who lived in Coupar Angus in the county of Perthshire , Scotland . The family lived in Memel since the 17th century.
Wilhelm von Simpson ( also the elder to distinguish it from his great-grandson William von Simpson ) was a merchant in Memel. In 1828 he acquired Gut Georgenburg . Simpson built the largest East Prussian private stud here with mainly pure-bred Trakehners. Under the name "Wiesenburg", the stud was the setting for the novel The Barrings by William von Simpson (d. J.) from the 1930s.
Simpson was raised to the nobility in 1840 as William von Simpson. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Prussia and belonged to the First Chamber of the Prussian Parliament from 1849 to 1853 .
Heir to Gut Georgenburg was his son George William von Simpson .
literature
- Bernhard-Maria Rosenberg: The East Prussian representation in the Prussian state parliament: 1842–1862; a contribution to the history of the emergence of parliamentarism in Germany, ISBN 3774564264 , 1979, p. 157.
- Old Prussian Biography, Volume 3, p. 1061.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Straubel: Between monarchical autocracy and bourgeois striving for emancipation: civil servants and merchants as carriers of trade and commercial policy changes in Frederick Prussia (1740–1806); Volume 63 of publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, 2012, ISBN 9783830530169 , pp. 402–404, 552.
- ↑ Der Deutsche Herold - Volumes 32–33 - Page 153, 1901.
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| SURNAME | Simpson, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simpson, Johann Wilhelm von; Simpson, Johann Wilhelm; Simpson, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manor owner and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1788 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1858 |