Palmer, John, & Co
Other Business Names:
- Palmer & Co
- Palmer, John Horsley
- Palmer, Wilson & Co
- Burgh & Barber
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Calcutta, India
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading & trade
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading co & agency house activities
Notes:
Traced origins to the leading agency house of Burgh & Barber of Calcutta which John Palmer, 1767-1836, merchant, joined as a partner in 1803. Renamed John Palmer & Co in 1810. Developed by him into a powerful agency house which collapse in 1830, precipitated a major financial crisis in India. Connected with the London house of Palmer, Wilson & Co and with John Horsley Palmer, 1779-1858, sometime Governor of the Bank of England
Publications:
- An early global business in a colonial context. The strategies, management and failure of John Palmer & Co of Calcutta, 1780-1830 by Webster, Anthony
- 'British export interests in Bengal and imperial expansion in to South East Asia, 1780 to 1824. The origins of the Straits Settlements' in B Ingham & C Simmons (eds), Development Studies and Colonial Policy by Webster, Anthony
- 'Building intra-Asian and transcontinental mercantile networks in the age of the British East India Company. The rise and fall of the house of John Palmer' in U Bosma & A Webster (eds), Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750 by White, Nicholas J
- European Agency Houses in Bengal, 1783-1833 by Singh, S B
- John Palmer and plantation development in Western Java during the earlier nineteenth century by Knight, G Roger
- Raffles of the Eastern Isles by Wurtzburg, C E
- The Palmer loans by Tarling, N
- The Richest East India Merchant. The life and business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 by Webster, Anthony
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Palmer & Co
- Palmer, John Horsley
- Palmer, Wilson & Co
- Burgh & Barber
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Calcutta, India
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading & trade
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading co & agency house activities
Notes:
Traced origins to the leading agency house of Burgh & Barber of Calcutta which John Palmer, 1767-1836, merchant, joined as a partner in 1803. Renamed John Palmer & Co in 1810. Developed by him into a powerful agency house which collapse in 1830, precipitated a major financial crisis in India. Connected with the London house of Palmer, Wilson & Co and with John Horsley Palmer, 1779-1858, sometime Governor of the Bank of EnglandPublications:
- An early global business in a colonial context. The strategies, management and failure of John Palmer & Co of Calcutta, 1780-1830 by Webster, Anthony
- 'British export interests in Bengal and imperial expansion in to South East Asia, 1780 to 1824. The origins of the Straits Settlements' in B Ingham & C Simmons (eds), Development Studies and Colonial Policy by Webster, Anthony
- 'Building intra-Asian and transcontinental mercantile networks in the age of the British East India Company. The rise and fall of the house of John Palmer' in U Bosma & A Webster (eds), Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750 by White, Nicholas J
- European Agency Houses in Bengal, 1783-1833 by Singh, S B
- John Palmer and plantation development in Western Java during the earlier nineteenth century by Knight, G Roger
- Raffles of the Eastern Isles by Wurtzburg, C E
- The Palmer loans by Tarling, N
- The Richest East India Merchant. The life and business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 by Webster, Anthony