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Other Business Names:

Clerk, Sir John

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

Paris, France
Penicuik, Midlothian, Lothian, Scotland, Scotland

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Distribution - retailing Art, antiques, antiquarian books, etc, auctioneering, dealing & retailing
Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading & trade
Distribution - wholesaling, broking, market trading, etc Jewellery, silverware, luxury goods, etc, distribution
Merchanting & trade, international & inland Luxury goods trading & trade

Notes:

John Clerk, 1611-74, was a Scottish merchant who in his early life was resident in Paris and emerged as a leading trader in luxury goods which, with other goods, he exported to Scotland. Returned to Scotland in 1646 and acquired a landed estate at Penicuik in 1650s. His son was Sir John Clerk of Penicuik Bt, c1649-1722, who inherited his estates, and his grandson, 1676-1755, was also called John

Publications:

'Import of art. The taste for Northern European goods in Scotland in the seventeenth century' in J Roding & L H van Voss, The North Sea and Culture, 1550-1800 by Williams, J Lloyd
'Letter book of John Clerk, 1644-45' in Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 15 by Talbott, Siobhan (ed)

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