Merchant, slave trader, and diplomat. Born Scotland. 1746 he moved to London and began his own business initially in tobacco but quickly moved into the slave trade. His London base was at Philpot Lane. An important business associate in America was Henry Laurens.
His knowledge of trade with North America meant he became an advisor to the British government and in 1783 was a British negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
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Richard Oswald
The spelling is probably a good indication of which country funded this memor...
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1915-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Politician. President of the Committee for the erection of the Florence Nightingale Hospital in 1909.
The oldest of the three royal boroughs in England, it was formed in 1965 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames (which itself was a Royal Borough), Malden and Coombe and Su...
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