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merchant-tailor
ˈmerchant-ˈtailor Also with archaic spelling in the names of the ‘Company of Merchant Taylors’ and the ‘Merchant Taylors' School’. [f. merchant n. + tailor.] a. A tailor who supplies the materials of which his goods are made. Hence, a member of the company of Merchant-Taylors.1504 Wriothesley Chron ...
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Tinker, Tailor
The most common American version is:
Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief,
Doctor, Lawyer, (or "Merchant")
Indian Chief. Origins
A similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. 1475), in which pawns are named: "Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant
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Thomas Meagher (merchant)
Thomas Meagher ( – 26 January 1837) was an Irish merchant and tailor who arrived in Newfoundland around 1780 as an apprentice to a clothier surnamed Crotty
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Matthew Goode (merchant)
Elizabeth married a tailor, Alfred John Prince Porter, and had ten children. Her brother Samuel was also a tailor.
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Robert Gourlay (merchant)
Another servant in the Wardrobe, the tailor Malcolm Gourlay was probably his older brother, or uncle. In November 1570, as a merchant of Edinburgh, Gourlay supplied two hanks of gold thread to the Edinburgh tailor James Inglis and embroiderer John Young
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William Couper (bishop)
Life
The son of John Couper, merchant-tailor, of Edinburgh, he was born in 1568.
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Mikal Andreassen Stenberg
Mikal Andreassen Stenberg (8 August 1849 – 19 February 1941) was a Norwegian merchant and politician for the Conservative Party. He became a tailor from 1864 and a merchant from 1895, settling in Stavanger.
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Peter Sanderson (tailor)
Lady Home bought textiles from the merchant John Robertson, which were delivered to her tailors Sanderson and David Lyon. The annual wage of the queen's tailor in 1591 was £100 and the foreman tailor had £40.
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Cloth merchant
A cloth merchant might additionally own a number of draper's shops. Cloth was extremely expensive and cloth merchants were often very wealthy. The largely obsolete term merchant taylor also describes a business person who trades in textiles, and initially a tailor who keeps and sells materials
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James McAlpin
James McAlpin (August 6, 1761 – July 20, 1847) was a Philadelphia businessman and merchant who served as George Washington's tailor during his presidency City directories list McAlpin as a merchant tailor until approximately 1817, and from 1818 onward he is listed as a gentleman.
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James Hommyll
James Hommyll was the son of a royal tailor, also called "James Hommyll". James Hommyll the elder, and James III
His father, also called James Hommyll, was the king's tailor.
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John Lowe (martyr)
His father Simon was perhaps the Simon Low who was a merchant-tailor and citizen of London. He was for some time a Protestant minister.
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Joseph-Alphonse-Paul Cadotte
He was the son of Alfred Cadotte, merchant-tailor, and Dorilda Coutu, his wife, daughter of A. Coutu, of Saint-Gabriel de Brandon.
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Alexander Miller
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Alexander Kennedy Miller (1906–1993), American collector
Alexander Miller (composer) (born 1968), American composer
Alexander Miller (merchant ), Scottish merchant
Alexander Miller (tailor) (1559-1616), Scottish tailor to James VI
Alex Miller (born 1949), Scottish association football player and
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John Emary
John Emary (born 1810 or 1811) was a British tailor and businessman, and the founder of the fashion brand Aquascutum. In the 1871 census, he was aged 60, and a "merchant tailor", living in Islington, with his wife Elizabeth, three children (Mary, George M, and Susan Meears
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