Draft:Charles Peto Bennett
Charles Peto Bennett (1856–1940) was an English timber merchant and company director of Lombard Street, London. He was a business partner of Alfred Baldwin Raper, and associate of Marentius Thams of Trondheim.[1]
Life[edit]
Charles Peto Bennett was son and nephew of merchants in mahogany;[2] his father had warehouses on the River Thames.[3] He set up in business in Lombard Street in 1877.[2] A timber import partnership with Lars August Brolin was dissolved in 1890.[4] Bennett was also involved in the 1890 bankruptcy of the timber merchant Arthur Henry Lilley, trading as Lilley, Bennett & Co. from 27 Lombard Street, in debt to Brolin, Bennett & Co.[5][6]
Around 1890 Bennett visited British North Borneo, and set up there North Borneo Rubber Estates, Ltd., which he ran for many years.[2] A 1916 advertisement for C. Peto Bennett of London and Liverpool offered "Box Shooks for Shell Cases, Ammunition, Ration, Bacon, Biscuit, Rum, Jam, Petroleum, Clothing, Tea, and all other Boxes."[7] By 1919 they had a reputation as clearly the largest British importer of box shooks (i.e. slats), for the manufacture of wooden boxes.[8]
In 1908, Bennett was a director of Millars Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited of West Australia, and in 1914 and 1924 a director of Millars Timber & Trading Co., a successor company.[9][10][11][12] Other directorships (1914) were in Argentine Hardwoods & Lands Co. Ltd., Bode Rubber Estates Ltd., and Dominica Forests & Sawmills, Ltd.[13] In 1927 he also was a director of Tuaran Rubber Estates, Ltd.[14] That year The Californian Lumber Merchant reported on the month-long visit Bennett made to the Philippines, with honorary consul Niels Christian Gude. Millars Timber & Trading Co. had two large subsidiaries in Manila.[15]
Collector[edit]
In 1933 Bennett owned the Southern Cross pearl formation, of nine pearls, which was shown at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924.[16][17]
Family[edit]
Bennett's great-granddaughter Tilly (Matilde) Culme-Seymour wrote a family memoir Island Summers (2013) about Småholmene (d:Q49123918), a small island in the Skaggerak.[18]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Charles Peto Bennett". digitaltmuseum.no.
- ^ a b c "Death of a North Borneo timber pioneer". www.dailyexpress.com.my. 2 March 1940.
- ^ Bomann-Larsen, Tor (31 August 2011). Roald Amundsen. The History Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7524-6682-8.
- ^ "No. 26109". The London Gazette. 25 November 1890. p. 6632.
- ^ "No. 26049". The London Gazette. 9 May 1890. p. 2742.
- ^ Timber and Wood-working Machinery. Middlesex Publishing Company. 1890. p. 339.
- ^ Anglo-Swedish trade journal : journal. Vol. VIII. London: Swedish Chamber of Commerce. 1916. p. 54.
- ^ Canada Lumberman and Woodworker. Vol. 39. H.C. Maclean. 1919. p. 38.
- ^ "1908 Stock Exchange Year-Book: Miscellaneous Companies: M - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
- ^ "1914 Who's Who in Business: Company M - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
- ^ "1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company M - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
- ^ "Millars Timber and Trading Co - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
- ^ The Directory of Directors for 1914: A List of the Directors of the Joint Stock Companies of the United Kingdom and the Companies with which They are Concerned, with Such Other Particulars as are Considered to be of Use and Interest. Thomas Skinner & Company. 1914. p. 84.
- ^ The Directory of Directors for 1927, A List of the Directors of the Joint Stock Companies of the United Kingdom and the Companies with which They are Concerned, with Such Other Particulars as are Considered to be of Use and Interest. Thomas Skinner & Company. 1927. p. 120.
- ^ "The California Lumber Merchant: C. P. Bennett and N. C. Gude Nationally Known Lumbermen Visit Coast". issuu.com. 15 July 1927. p. 37.
- ^ "British Empire Exhibition Australian Pavilion. Fisheries stand. Between the two attendants is the case containing the 'Southern Cross' pearl". slwa.wa.gov.au. 1924.
- ^ The Gemmologist. 1933. p. 114.
- ^ House, Christian (13 July 2013). "Tilly Culme-Seymour interview on her new memoir Island Summers". The Independent.
External links[edit]
- Southern Cross Pearl back from long exile, blogpost by Jennifer Moran