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5 unusual facts about merchant


Four Lane Ends Interchange

The crossroads has historically been important for traders, cattle drivers, and those transporting local salts and lime towards the shipyards and factories in Newcastle.

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

In 1991, GVSHP launched its first educational program, “Greenwich Village: History and Historic Preservation,” as a joint effort with the Merchant's House Museum, and, in 1995, designed and published a 12-page children’s workbook, “Discovering Greenwich Village,” for distribution to children in the school program.

Hudson's Bay tokens

Before these brass tokens came into use, a Made-Beaver was represented by a stick, porcupine quill, and ivory disc, a musket ball, or anything else agreed upon by trader and trapper.

Merchant's mark

This mark forms the central emblem displayed on the Scinde Dawk postage stamps.

Seabury

Merchant's House Museum or Seabury Tredwell House, in the Bowery, Manhattan


AAFMAA

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), United States Military Academy (USMA), United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen and cadets

Addington Palace

Mr Trecothick had been raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and became a merchant there; he then moved to London still trading as a merchant, and later became Lord Mayor and then an MP.

Africa Star

:Awarded for service with the 18th Army Group Headquarters between 15 February 1942 and 12 February 1943, or navy and merchant navy in shore service, or Royal Air Force service in specified areas from 23 October 1942 to 12 May 1943.

Alexander Kaminsky

Since 1867, Kaminsky was also a house architect for Moscow Merchant Society, an ambitious real estate consortium that redeveloped territories of Kitai-Gorod, Neglinnaya Street.

Allen S. Cutts

Outside of his business as a merchant, Cutts was a member of both the Freemasons and the Oddfellows.

Athen

SS Athen (1893), German merchant ship lost off Portland Bill in the English Channel in 1906, and now a dive site

Benjamin Frobisher

They were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the London merchant John Strettell.

Brahetrolleborg

After reverting again to the Crown in 1661, it was granted in 1664 by King Frederick III of Denmark to his court favourite, the German merchant and politician Christoffer Gabel, who exchanged it three years later for the chalk mountain of Segeberg with Birgitte Nielsdatter, of the Trolle family and married into the Brahe family, whence the name of the castle and also of her barony, Brahetrolleborg.

Broder Knudtzon

Knudtzon was born in Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag; he was the sixth and youngest child of Hans Carl Knudtzon (1751–1823), a merchant and burgomaster, and Karen Knudtzon (née Müller, 1752–1818).

Canton Merchant Volunteers Corps Uprising

Two days later, Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde, Taishan, Dongwan, Zengcheng, Xinhui, Qingyuan, Gaoyao, Qujiang, Yangjiang, Luoding and other 20 counties decided to join the strike in support of the Canton Merchant Corps.

Champagne Charlie

Charles Heidsieck, the French Champagne wine merchant who was originally called "Champagne Charlie"

Charles Hardy

Hardy's brother Josiah was a merchant and the Governor of New Jersey from 1761-63.

Charles Woodward

Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward - (1924 - 1990), Canadian merchant and rancher, grandson of Charles A. Woodward

Christopher Levett

Levett was the son of Percival Levett, a York merchant and innkeeper, and was admitted a freeman of York as a merchant himself.

Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester

Lord Grantchester is the grandson of John Moores and his mother is nominal head of the Moores family, founders of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses.

Debden, Uttlesford

It was acquired in 1715 by wealthy merchant Richard Chiswell, MP and remained in the Chiswell family for some 100 years.

Donald Black

Donald Elmer Black (1892–?), Canadian politician, farmer and merchant

Dream Merchant

Dream Merchant is a R&B ballad written by Larry Weiss and Jerry Ross.

Edmund Ernest García

That same month the Sloat joined a convoy, consisting of 72 merchant ships and 18 LST's, which was guarded by Task Force (TF) 64.

George Huff

George Albert Huff (died 1934), merchant and political figure in British Columbia

Ghanaians in the United Kingdom

In 1555 John Lok, a London merchant and Alderman, brought five Africans from the town of Sharma, in what is today Ghana, to London to be trained as interpreters in order to assist England’s trade with the western coast of Africa.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

Jean Gaspard de Vence

Then returned to the merchant navy and in 1767 aboard the ship «L'Auguste» take a cruise along the coast of Africa, near Cape St. Philip was in a shipwreck more than four months and get to Marseille, losing half the team from scurvy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Say was intended to follow a commercial career, and in 1785 was sent, with his brother Horace, to complete his education in England: here he attended a private school in Croydon, and was afterwards employed by a merchant in London.

Joel Palmer

Between 1858 and 1861 he spent time in British Columbia as a merchant to prospectors in the gold rushes of the Thompson River, Similkameen Valley, and Fraser River.

John Burgon

Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English merchant trading in Turkey who was also a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum.

John Rogerson

Sir John Rogerson (1648–1724), Irish politician, wealthy merchant and property developer; Member of Parliament for Clogher and Dublin City

Joseph Horrocks

Joseph Lucas Horrocks (1803-1865) was born in Anderton, Lancashire, near Bolton, on 18 November 1803, the first son of William Horrocks, a corn merchant, and Jane Smith.

Kingdom of Tondo

One famous Japanese merchant, Luzon Sukezaemon (呂宋助左衛門), went as far as to change his surname from Naya (納屋) to Luzon (呂宋).

L’Égaré II

They were able to obtain from a local timber merchant nine seasoned red cedar logs, 18 inches in diameter.

Larry Merchant

When De la Hoya entered the ring to Mariachi music, Merchant stated that while he loved Mariachi music, he felt that it "stunk" in this particular situation.

Linda Bellos

Bellos was born in London to a Jewish mother, Renee Sackman, and a Nigerian father, Emmanuel Adebowale, who came from Uzebba and joined the merchant navy during the Second World War.

Luke McKay

Other works include online fashion content/TVC's for David Jones (merchant), featuring Victoria's Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr & for JLH, featuring former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins.

Madlener House

Albert Madlener was the son of prominent liquor distiller and merchant Fridolin Madlener, who had come to Chicago from Baden, Germany.

Mark Croucher

On leaving school at the age of 16, he attended Erith College (now Bexley College) for a year before enlisting in the United States Air Force at the age of 17, where he served for three years as a radio operator before taking an early discharge and returning to the UK to attend Merchant Navy College (formerly the Thames Nautical Training College), Greenhithe, Kent, qualifying as a Radio Officer in 1989.

Marko Bruerović

In 1793 he was engaged for 4 years in diplomatic work in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina) as merchant attaché, where he also helped the Jewish merchants (based in Sarajevo).

Maurice Bonham Carter

He also held a number of business directorships with companies such as Blackburn and General Aircraft, Hanworth Securities Ltd, Scophony Ltd and was a partner with merchant bankers O.T. Falk and Partners, and stockbrokers Buckmaster & Moore.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Newington West by-election, 1916

Norton had already indicated his intention to stand down from the Commons at the next general election, and the City of London merchant J. D. Gilbert had already been selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate.

Philip Bickerstaffe

Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714) was an English merchant and the owner of Amble Works.

Rebecca Gratz

Gratz is said to have been the model of Rebecca, the daughter of the Jewish merchant Isaac of York, who is the heroine in the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

Robert Forbes

Robert Bennet Forbes (1804–1889), sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, and writer

Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham

Maugham bought the merchant ship MV Joyita as a hulk in the early 1960s, writing about the mystery of the incident in his book The Joyita Mystery (1962).

Royal Cork Institution

Its early patrons included businesses and landed people including William Beamish (1760-1828), William Crawford, Cooper Penrose (1736-1815) and James Roche (1770-1853).

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

In 1774 his first American customer was the leading Philadelphia merchant, Willing, Morris & Co.; its influential partners included Robert Morris, a future financial architect of American independence from Britain, and Thomas Willing, a future president of the Bank of the United States.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

Taejo of Goryeo

Taejo was born in 877 and was a descendant of a merchant family at Songdo (present-day Kaesŏng), who controlled trade on the Yeseong River.

Ueda Akinari

Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education.

Wave-class oiler

Thirteen of the 20 of the ships were initially built for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which assigned them to be operated by various merchant shipping lines.


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