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The company was founded in 1851 by two young men from Fife, Scotland, Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson.
In 1848 he went to Liverpool, and there founded, with Alexander Balfour, the firm of Balfour Williamson, trading with South America with offices in Valparaiso, Chile and San Francisco.