Knight, John

Sectors:

  • Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, sugar
  • Food & tobacco processing Sugar refining & sugar products manufacture

Notes:

John Knight, c1616-79, sugar refiner at Bristol. Established sugar refinery in 1650s having formerly lived and owned land in the Fenlands. Also a merchant owning sugar plantations in West Indies which supplied his refinery. Succeeded in the sugar business by his son, (Sir) John Knight, merchant and MP

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