P_10432_2675 – Samuel Touchet
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First name: Samuel
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Last name: Touchet
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Primary cohort: Liverpool
Sex: Male
Religion: Nonconformist - Unitarian
Social background: Craft
Primary outcome: Trade
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Thomas Touchet
Father
A merchant and manufacturer of Manchester in linen and cotton goods
Mary Touchet
Mother
Nee Sworton
Dorothy Touchet
Spouse
Nee Hallows
Lewis Paul
Business Partner
Attempted an alliance with Paul, the inventor of the first roller-spinning machine
Political Offices Held
Parliament
MP for Shaftsbury 1761-1768
Local
Representing Lancashire's commercial interests in London and leading parliamentary agitations such as that in 1751 for a bounty on checked and striped linens
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Geographic experiences
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Internal migrant: Yes
Born in Manchester, spent much of his life representing his family's firm in London
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: No
Sources: ONDB
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Crossings (2)
90839 - Favourite (1760 - 1761)
Role: Owner
90647 - Lydia (1756 - 1757)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1705
Location: Manchester (Lancashire)
Death
Date: 1773
Location: Westminster (London)
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Occupation: Merchant - General Overseas (Merchant)
Touchet's early trade focused on the import of raw cotton and linen yarn but quickly diversified into an array of commercial interests across the Atlantic and Europe. These included textiles, but also shipping, insurance, speculation in naval prizes, and the sugar and slave trades. He was also involved in schemes to monopolise the trade to Labrador in 1749, Senegal in 1756 - including his half-share in an expedition to capture Fort St Louis, and the mineral rights of Lake Superior in Canada in 1772 - a project for which he was appointed deputy governor.
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Other business activities
Region: England
Economic sector: Government contracts
Region: England
Economic sector: Banking
The fifth largest subscriber towards the £8million loan in 1759
Region: North America (old colonies - Virginia, New England, Massachusetts etc)
Economic sector: Land
In June 1766 Touchet received a grant of 20,000 acres in Florida; and on 8 July 1767 a grant of land in the Island of St. John
Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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