[Slave trade; Manuscripts] Partnership agreements, 1825-1929

by Thomson Hankey & Co. of 7 Mincing Lane, City of London, ('West India and General Merchants Bankers and Agents'):

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1825-1929. Fifteen partnership agreements (indentures, memoranda, articles of copartnership) relating to the London banking firm of Thomson Hankey & Co., dating from between 1825 and 1929.Having traded with Jamaica, Antigua and the Leeward Islands in partnership with John Houblon. Captain Samuel Hankey commenced in business as a City of London banker-goldsmith in 1685. The firm prospered to such an extent that his son Henry owned Jonathan's Coffee House in Exchange Alley, the precursor of the London Stock Exchange, and was knighted in 1732. Its fortunes continued to flourish with the slave trade, and by the early 1820s its headquarters at 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London handled the accounts of a number of prominent proprietors of West Indian plantations, including William Beckford. As an indication of the family's continuing prosperity, the wealth of Thompson Hankey senior (1773-1855, grandson of Sir Thomas Hankey) was stated at his death to be 'within province' of the fabulous sum of £140,000.The present collection of fifteen items documents the changes within the firm over the course of a century, and includes details of business and financial arrangements and capitalization. There are references to estates in West Indies in the following items: One (Robert Henry Church's Grenville Vale Estate and William Foreman Home's Waltham Estate, both on Grenada, an island with which the Hankey family had a strong connection), Two (Grenville Vale) and Eleven (Duckinfield Hall sug

• Publisher: 1825-1929
• Binding: hardcover

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