Camden, Calvert and King
Camden, Calvert and King was an eighteenth-century partnership that traded in London from 1760 to 1824,[1] transporting slaves and later convicts.
Activities
The partners owned whalers, merchant vessels trading to the East and West Indies, slavers and vessels transporting convicts to Australia.[2]
The partners became involved in the transportation of English convicts first to America and later to Australia.[3]
They were the largest company in London involved in the slave trade.[4] After the British Parliament passed an Act for the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the company continued to put its know-how in transporting people to work transporting convicts to Australia.[4]
The principal partners were William Camden (173? - 1796), Anthony Calvert (1735-1809) and Thomas King (1735? – 1824).[1]
Addresses[2]
- 12 Red Lion Street, Wapping
- Limehouse Shipyard
- The Crescent and 14 America Square, Minories
- 24 Burr Street, Wapping
- Alie (Ayliffe) Street, Aldgate
Vessels
Citations and references
Citations
- ^ a b Cozens, Kenneth James. "Politics, Patronage and Profit: A Case Study of Three 18th Century London Merchants" (PDF). merchantnetworks.com. Ken Cozens and Dan Byrnes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ a b Clayton (2014), Addendum p. 11.
- ^ Christopher, Emma (2011). A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199782555.
- ^ a b "London's slave paper trail". BBC London. BBC. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
References
- Clayton, Jane M. (2014) Ships employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815: An alphabetical list of ships. (Berforts Group). ISBN 978-1908616524 (Addendum dated 2014).
- Sturgess, Gary L.; Cozens, Ken (2013). "Managing a Global Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century: Anthony Calvert of The Crescent, London, 1777–1808". Mariner's Mirror. 99 (2): 171–195. doi:10.1080/00253359.2013.785134.