Early Merchant Families of Sydney: Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of EmpireEstablishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia is counterintuitive, an understanding of its rationale, nature and risk strategies is the more imperative. This book traces the development of private enterprise in Australia through a study of the antecedents, connections and commercial activities of early Sydney merchants.
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Contents
Abbreviations | xvi |
Robert Campbell | xxxii |
Campbell Hook Co | xlv |
the rise and fall | lviii |
Walter Stevenson Davidson the colonys | lxxv |
Alexander Riley the cautious merchant 71 | lxxxvii |
the mixed fortunes | xcix |
Jones Rileys wool | cviii |
Aspinall Browne Co 169 | cxci |
John Lambs partnerships 183 | ccv |
T G Pitman Bostonian merchant 213 | ccxxxv |
Jardines agents and tea trade rivalry 223 | ccxlv |
Henry Moore Co 232 | ccliv |
The end of an era 245 | cclxvii |
Appendices | cclxxxvi |
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agency agent Alexander Birnie Alexander Riley Alexander to Edward April arrived Aspinall August Australian Bank Bengal Birnie’s Blaxcell Bligh Britain British brother Browne Calcutta Campbell’s Canton capital Captain cargo Charles Hook China colony commercial Company’s creditors daughter Davidson Dawes December Donaldson East India Company Edward Riley England export father’s February firm’s George Gore Governor Hobart Hook Hunter interest investment January Jardine Joseph Moore July June Lamb land Liverpool London Lord Macarthur Macquarie March married Matheson Matheson & Co mercantile Moore’s November NSW Supreme Court NSWSR October Parbury partner partnership Pitman purchased returned to Sydney Richard Jones Riley’s Robert Campbell September ship shipmasters South Wales Street Stuart Stuart Alexander Donaldson Sydney firm Sydney Gazette Sydney Herald Sydney merchants Sydney Monitor Sydney Morning Herald Sydney’s Thacker Thomas Walker trade UK National Archives Van Diemen’s Land voyage whaling wharf wife William Walker wool