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H. George Harris (cricketer, born 1880) Charles Digby Harrod; Sebastian Harvey; Thomas Hayes (Lord Mayor) David Hechstetter; Charles Christian Hennell; William Hewett (Lord Mayor)
Costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, 1577. The English term, merchant comes from the Middle English, marchant, which is derived from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, which itself originated from the Vulgar Latin mercatant or mercatans, formed from present participle of mercatare ('to trade, to traffic or to deal in'). [1]
Medieval English merchants active before about 1485, the start of the Tudor Age and a milestone in the Renaissance. See also: Category:15th-century English businesspeople See also: Category:16th-century English businesspeople
About the same time he became governor of the merchant adventurers of Bergen, and in 1541 he was sent with Carne to the regent of Flanders to procure the repeal of the restrictions on English commerce. [8] In 1544 he was granted the clerkship of dispensations, and about the same time the priory of St. Mary Spital, Shoreditch. He retained his ...
The Royal Merchant was a 17th-century English merchant ship that was lost at sea off Land's End in rough weather on 23 September 1641. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (over US$1.5 billion in today's money), [3] 400 bars of Mexican silver (another 1 million) and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all time.
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H. Hugh Hamersley; Thomas Hammond (merchant) William Harborne; Daniel Harvey (diplomat) William Hawkins (fl. c. 1600) Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
David Lewis (19 December 1823 – 4 December 1885), was a British merchant and philanthropist.The founder of Lewis's department store in Liverpool, in 1879 he conceived the idea of what is claimed to be the world's first Christmas grotto, entitled 'Christmas Fairyland'. [1]