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The Earles of Liverpool - A Georgian Merchant Dynasty (Paperback)
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The Earles of Liverpool - A Georgian Merchant Dynasty (Paperback)
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This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle
family to throw light on the social and economic history of
Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688
to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family,
John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his
three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants
specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and
William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who
consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of
converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive
rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make
the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit,
the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in
considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the
business of three of them, but they and other members of the family
also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the
import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in
Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of
Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the
industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other
family interests included privateering, art collection and the
trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade.
While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also
much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history
of both Liverpool and Livorno.
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